Definition of Genus Stevia

1. Noun. Genus of shrubs and herbs of tropical and warm Americas.

Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Stevia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Stevia

genus Stellaria
genus Stenocarpus
genus Stenochlaena
genus Stenopelmatus
genus Stenopterygius
genus Stenotaphrum
genus Stenotomus
genus Stenotus
genus Stentor
genus Stephanomeria
genus Stephanotis
genus Stercorarius
genus Sterculia
genus Sterna
genus Sternotherus
genus Stevia (current term)
genus Sticherus
genus Stictomys
genus Stictopelia
genus Stizolobium
genus Stizostedion
genus Stokesia
genus Storeria
genus Strekelia
genus Strelitzia
genus Strepera
genus Strepsiceros
genus Streptocarpus
genus Streptococcus
genus Streptomyces

Literary usage of Genus Stevia

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.) (1907)
"The Eupatorieae are represented by nine species of the genus Eupatorium, which extend from ^Xorth America; by a few species of the Brazilian genus Stevia, ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)
"The Eupatorieae are represented by nine species of the genus Eupatorium, which extend from !North America; by a few species of the Brazilian genus Stevia, ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... we stopped to dine; and here on a bar of gravel I found a new species of the Mexican genus Stevia, and never saw it afterwards in any other locality. ..."

4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... anum but it is now sometimes placed in the closely allied genus Stevia. The principle that causes the sweet taste has been ..."

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