Definition of Genus Primula

1. Noun. Very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers.

Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Primrose, Primula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Primula

genus Portunus
genus Porzana
genus Potamogale
genus Potamogeton
genus Potamophis
genus Potentilla
genus Poterium
genus Pothos
genus Potorous
genus Potos
genus Pouteria
genus Praunus
genus Prenanthes
genus Presbytes
genus Priacanthus
genus Primula (current term)
genus Prinia
genus Priodontes
genus Prionace
genus Prionotus
genus Pristis
genus Pritzelago
genus Proboscidea
genus Procavia
genus Procellaria
genus Prociphilus
genus Procnias
genus Proconsul
genus Procyon
genus Progne

Literary usage of Genus Primula

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

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"TO my mind the genus Primula affords some of the most beautiful and ... The genus Primula is large and widely distributed, occurring mainly in the northern ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"TO my mind the genus Primula, affords some of the most beautiful and ... The genus Primula is large and widely distributed, occurring mainly iii the ..."

3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1877)
"... in 1802) he communicated to the Linnean Society his first paper on the subject, which related to the dimorphism of the flowers in the genus Primula. ..."

4. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"If a number of plants of the common primrose, the oxlip, the cowslip or the polyanthus (species of the genus Primula) be examined carefully, it will be seen ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"ON THE BOTANICAL WORK WHICH HAS BEEN DONE IN THE genus Primula SINCE THE LAST CONFERENCE.* By Mr. JG BAKER, FBS, FLS, Keeper of the Herbarium of the Royal ..."

6. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"It was the study of the anatomy of the stem of a large number of species of the genus Primula which led Van Tieghem to propose the doctrines in regard to ..."

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