Definition of Genus Parthenium

1. Noun. Small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Parthenium

genus Paranthropus
genus Parascalops
genus Parasitaxus
genus Parathelypteris
genus Parietaria
genus Paris
genus Parkia
genus Parkinsonia
genus Parmelia
genus Parochetus
genus Paronychia
genus Parophrys
genus Parrotia
genus Parrotiopsis
genus Parthenium (current term)
genus Parthenocissus
genus Parula
genus Parus
genus Paspalum
genus Pastinaca
genus Patella
genus Pavo
genus Pavonia
genus Payena
genus Pecari
genus Pecopteris

Literary usage of Genus Parthenium

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

1. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"In the genus Parthenium, as in all the Compositae, the order to which it belongs, the flowers are arranged in heads or capitula (fig. 10). ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"The second paper, by Dr. NL Britton, ' The genus Parthenium in Eastern North America,' was a description of a new species of Parthe- nium, ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"The Compositae has one genus, Parthenium, that yields the Guayule rubber of Mexico. "The Euphorbiaceae is the most important family from a commerical ..."

4. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture by Jamaica Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, Dept. of Agriculture, William Fawcett (1907)
"The supply of Guayule has been greatly over-estimated, principally because of the confusing of Guayule with another species of the same genus, Parthenium ..."

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