Definition of Genus Lotus

1. Noun. Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lotus

genus Lolium
genus Lomatia
genus Lomogramma
genus Lonas
genus Lonchocarpus
genus Lonicera
genus Lophius
genus Lophodytes
genus Lopholatilus
genus Lophophora
genus Lophophorus
genus Lophosoria
genus Loranthus
genus Loris
genus Lota
genus Lotus (current term)
genus Lovoa
genus Loxia
genus Loxodonta
genus Loxoma
genus Loxostege
genus Lucilia
genus Lufengpithecus
genus Luffa
genus Lumpenus
genus Lunaria
genus Lunda
genus Lupinus
genus Luscinia
genus Lutjanus

Literary usage of Genus Lotus

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... shrub or tree which hangs out over the water; and the genus Lotus (qv) is distinct from all these. ..."

2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The Linnean genus, Lotus, has been divided by modern botanists into two genera differing in the form of the pod, which in Lotus is always without wings ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"and in this sense is a synonym of the restricted genus LOTUS Linn. In order to provide for the determination of the type in the case of genera resting ..."

4. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"A European genus (Lotus) uf small clovers, j growing in pastures, and preserving their verdure in the hot weather from their long roots. ..."

5. Annual Report and Proceedings of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1841)
"... Mr Babington has well shown not to be specific in this genus, in his paper on the British species of the genus Lotus (Annals of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. ..."

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