Definition of Genus Gaultheria

1. Noun. Widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gaultheria

genus Galleria
genus Gallinago
genus Gallinula
genus Gallirallus
genus Gallus
genus Gambelia
genus Gambusia
genus Garcinia
genus Gardenia
genus Garrulus
genus Gasterophilus
genus Gastroboletus
genus Gastrocybe
genus Gastrolobium
genus Gastrophryne
genus Gaultheria (current term)
genus Gavia
genus Gavialis
genus Gaylussacia
genus Gazania
genus Gazella
genus Geastrum
genus Gelechia
genus Gelsemium
genus Gempylus
genus Genetta
genus Genipa
genus Genista
genus Genlisea
genus Gentiana

Literary usage of Genus Gaultheria

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

1. Spicilegium Neilgherrense, Or, a Selection of Neilgherry Plants: Drawn and by Robert Wight (1851)
"... The genus Gaultheria is an intermediate form, or sort of half way house between them ; the ovary is at first superior and the mature seed are the small ..."

2. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1818)
"The genus Gaultheria is beautifully singular and distinct in its character, derived from the form of its fruit. The calyx is jive cleft, caly- culated, ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1834)
"CULTURE OF THE genus Gaultheria. THE species of this genus are ornamental, and well deserving of cultivation. The G. Shallon, though small in this country, ..."

4. Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and by Raphael Pumpelly (1870)
"... this genus, gaultheria, which is unknown on continental Asia or Europe, is another striking point of resemblance between the floras of northern Japan ..."

5. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"The genus Gaultheria is beautifully singular and distinct in its character, derived from the form of its fruit. The calyx is jive cleft, ..."

6. A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies by James Backhouse (1843)
"Persons suffering from excessive thirst, have been relieved by eating the berries of this species. Nat. Ord. ERICE.S:. Heath family. Genus, Gaultheria. ..."

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