Definition of Genus Glycyrrhiza

1. Noun. Sticky perennial Eurasian herbs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Glycyrrhiza

genus Glaux
genus Glechoma
genus Gleditsia
genus Gleichenia
genus Gliricidia
genus Glis
genus Globicephala
genus Globigerina
genus Gloriosa
genus Glossina
genus Glossodia
genus Glossopsitta
genus Gloxinia
genus Glyceria
genus Glycine
genus Glycyrrhiza (current term)
genus Gnaphalium
genus Gnetum
genus Gobiesox
genus Gobio
genus Gomphotherium
genus Gomphrena
genus Goniopteris
genus Gonorhynchus
genus Goodyera
genus Gopherus
genus Gorgonocephalus
genus Gorilla
genus Gossypium
genus Gracula

Literary usage of Genus Glycyrrhiza

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

1. American Druggist (1891)
"It belongs to the genus Glycyrrhiza, though many other plante of near genera have roots that possess similar qualities. Especially is this the case with the ..."

2. Food: Its Adulterations, and the Methods for Their Detection by Arthur Hill Hassall (1876)
"Stick liquorice consists of tfie underground stem or rhizome of a plant belonging to the genus Glycyrrhiza, usually in this country, ..."

3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus Glycyrrhiza,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 508; Baill., Hist. Pl., ii, p. 282. Species 14, natives of warmer temperate countries in both Old and New ..."

4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (Greek, meaning sweet- root), Italian liquirizia. The root abounds with a sweet juice much used in ..."

5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1860)
"LIQUORICE, a medicinal article prepared in various forms from plants belonging to the genus glycyrrhiza (Gr. y\vn>s, sweet, and pifa, a root), commonly from ..."

6. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1857)
"A plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza (Greek, meaning sweet- root), Italian liquirizia. The root abounds with a sweet juice much used in ..."

7. Adulterations Detected; Or, Plain Instructions for the Discovery of Frauds by Arthur Hill Hassall (1857)
"Stick liquorice consists of the underground stem or rhizome of a plant belonging to the genus Glycyrrhiza, usually in this country Gly- ..."

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