Definition of Genus Eschscholtzia

1. Noun. Showy herbs of western North America.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Eschscholtzia

genus Erithacus
genus Erodium
genus Erolia
genus Eruca
genus Erwinia
genus Eryngium
genus Erysimum
genus Erysiphe
genus Erythrina
genus Erythrocebus
genus Erythronium
genus Erythroxylon
genus Erythroxylum
genus Escherichia
genus Eschrichtius
genus Eschscholtzia (current term)
genus Esox
genus Estrilda
genus Etropus
genus Euarctos
genus Eucalyptus
genus Eucarya
genus Eucinostomus
genus Euderma
genus Eudyptes
genus Eugenia
genus Euglena
genus Eumeces
genus Eumenes
genus Eumetopias

Literary usage of Genus Eschscholtzia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1837)
"With regard to the alteration of the genus Eschscholtzia to that of Chryseis, ... of the well known and universally admired genus Eschscholtzia, which, ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and the Zoologischer Atlas (1820-1833) The botanical genus Eschscholtzia was named by Adelbert von Chamisso in his honour. ESCHWEGE, a town of Germany, ..."

3. The Golden Poppy by Emory Evans Smith (1902)
"In fact, he is very conservative; hence his conclusions may be taken with confidence. ACCEPTED SPECIES GENUS Eschscholtzia,Chamisso. ..."

4. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1897)
"... and in the genus Eschscholtzia) : ovary superior : receptacle usually small, rarely developed into a discoid expansion ..."

5. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1879)
"... on either question—I am told to "observe the floral receptacle of the Californian genus Eschscholtzia." Now I can't observe anything of the sort, ..."

6. Lessons in Elementary Botany: The Part of Systematic Botany Based Upon by Daniel Oliver, John Stevens Henslow (1895)
"Observe also the floral receptacle of the Californian genus, Eschscholtzia, a common garden annual, with orange flowers; the receptacle grows up around the ..."

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