Definition of Genus Inula

1. Noun. Genus of Old World herbs or subshrubs: elecampane.

Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Inula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Inula

genus Icterus
genus Ictiobus
genus Ictonyx
genus Idesia
genus Iguana
genus Iguanodon
genus Ilex
genus Iliamna
genus Illecebrum
genus Illicium
genus Impatiens
genus Inachis
genus Indigofera
genus Indri
genus Inga
genus Inula (current term)
genus Ipomoea
genus Irena
genus Iresine
genus Iridoprocne
genus Iris
genus Irvingia
genus Isatis
genus Ischigualastia
genus Isoetes
genus Isopyrum
genus Istiophorus
genus Isurus
genus Iva
genus Ixia

Literary usage of Genus Inula

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

1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1866)
"I have great pleasure in supplementing these remarks by some observations on the genus Inula ... The extensive genus Inula forms three subgenera, ..."

2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"... descriptions for a number of plants, new Asters so-called then and long afterward, which made a considerable part of the Linnean genus Inula. ..."

3. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"The genus INULA, besides thirty foreign species, some of which are cultivated by our gardeners, contains other three native plants : the dysenterica, ..."

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