Definition of Genus Melia

1. Noun. Type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Melia

genus Megaderma
genus Megalobatrachus
genus Megalosaurus
genus Megaptera
genus Megatherium
genus Melampodium
genus Melampsora
genus Melanerpes
genus Melanitta
genus Melanogrammus
genus Melanoplus
genus Melanotis
genus Melastoma
genus Meleagris
genus Meles
genus Melia (current term)
genus Melicocca
genus Melicoccus
genus Melicytus
genus Melilotus
genus Melissa
genus Mellivora
genus Melocactus
genus Melogale
genus Melolontha
genus Melophagus
genus Melopsittacus
genus Melospiza
genus Melursus
genus Menippe

Literary usage of Genus Melia

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

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Torrey and Gray, Flora. species of the genus Melia are few, and mostly natives of Persia, India, and Japan. The half-hardy kinds are all deciduous trees, ..."

2. The Psychic Life of Insects by E.-L. Bouvier (1922)
"The implement of the crabs of the genus Melia, in the Indo-Pacific seas, is a delicate sea anemone which, held between the pincers of the animal, ..."

3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The young shoots are smooth, not covered with down as in the allied genus Melia. The flowers are small, white, borne in axillary panicles ; they differ from ..."

4. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus Melia,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 332; Baill., lc, p. 493. About 5 species are known, natives of the hot parts of Asia and Australia, and one widely ..."

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