Definition of Genus Sphagnum

1. Noun. A large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water.

Generic synonyms: Moss Genus
Group relationships: Order Sphagnales, Sphagnales
Member holonyms: Bog Moss, Peat Moss, Sphagnum, Sphagnum Moss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sphagnum

genus Spalax
genus Sparaxis
genus Sparganium
genus Sparmannia
genus Spartina
genus Spartium
genus Spathiphyllum
genus Spergula
genus Spergularia
genus Sphacele
genus Sphacelotheca
genus Sphaeralcea
genus Sphaerocarpos
genus Sphaerocarpus
genus Sphagnum (current term)
genus Sphecius
genus Sphecotheres
genus Spheniscus
genus Sphenodon
genus Sphyraena
genus Sphyrapicus
genus Sphyrna
genus Spilogale
genus Spinacia
genus Spinus
genus Spiraea
genus Spiranthes
genus Spirillum
genus Spirochaeta

Literary usage of Genus Sphagnum

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

1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1844)
"Note on the genus Sphagnum. The genus Sphagnum, which occupies such an important position in the economy of Nature, does not latterly appear to have ..."

2. The Nature Library by Doubleday, Page & Co., Firm, Publ (1907)
"... Bazzania 150 Ba^ania trilobata 106 PART IV LEAFY-MOSSES genus Sphagnum 109 The method by which Peat-mosses encroach upon water to form land 109 The pale ..."

3. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... Warming's term for a Sphagnum boa ; sphag'nous, resembling or allied to the genus Sphagnum. ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"There is but one family, containing the single genus Sphagnum. Peat Mosses are much used by gardeners for "packing," on account of their power of retaining ..."

5. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"Wetensch. Kring Antwerp.) 12: 39-43. 1920.—The author comments on the polymorphism of the genus Sphagnum and discusses 21 varieties, forms, ..."

6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1914)
"Twenty-five species (not to mention varieties and forms) of the genus Sphagnum have been listed from Alaska so far as the writer has been able to consult ..."

7. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1875)
"It is certain, as previously stated, that in Europe mosses belonging to the genus Sphagnum contribute very largely, and sometimes almost exclusively, ..."

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