Definition of Genus Menziesia

1. Noun. Deciduous shrubs of North America and eastern Asia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Menziesia

genus Melogale
genus Melolontha
genus Melophagus
genus Melopsittacus
genus Melospiza
genus Melursus
genus Menippe
genus Meniscium
genus Menopon
genus Mentha
genus Menticirrhus
genus Mentzelia
genus Menura
genus Menyanthes
genus Menziesia (current term)
genus Mephitis
genus Mercenaria
genus Mercurialis
genus Mergus
genus Meriones
genus Merlangus
genus Merluccius
genus Merops
genus Mertensia
genus Meryta
genus Mesembryanthemum
genus Mesocricetus
genus Mesohippus
genus Mespilus

Literary usage of Genus Menziesia

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

1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... and Lab. north to the Arctic regions and Alaska. 1 It is extremely improbable that the genus Menziesia under any conditions produces an ovate leaf. ..."

2. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"... read in the Linnean Society Oct. 6, 1781, to refer this plant to the genus Menziesia. Vide Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. vi. p. 323. ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1842)
"There is a small tribe of peat-loving plants, resembling Heaths, and which might very properly be associated with them, included in the genus Menziesia. ..."

4. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1856)
"Another beautiful tribe, closely allied to the foregoing, is the genus Menziesia, which admits as much facility in its culture as the Heaths ; they are ..."

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