Definition of Genus Zostera

1. Noun. (or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Zostera

genus Zanthoxylum
genus Zapus
genus Zea
genus Zenaidura
genus Zerumbet
genus Zeus
genus Zigadenus
genus Zingiber
genus Zinjanthropus
genus Zinnia
genus Zizania
genus Ziziphus
genus Zoarces
genus Zoisia
genus Zonotrichia
genus Zostera (current term)
genus Zoysia
genus Zygnema
genus Zygocactus
genus Zygophyllum
genus bombycilla
genus ceroxylon
genus gasterosteus
genus lemmus
genus manglietia
genus name
genus raphanus
genuses
genyantrum
genys

Literary usage of Genus Zostera

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

1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... In the seas which border Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and also in the West Indies and Australia. They consist of the genus Zostera, and four or uve ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"761, which dissipates much doubt that had been attached to that figure, 7. Dr. Smith, according to his observations in E. В., brings the genus Zostera^ ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The genus Zostera (from the Greek, referring to the ribbon-like leaves), comprises six species, of which two besides the eel-grass are found in America. ..."

4. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee (1915)
"The genus Phyllospadix represents this element on our exposed coasts and the genus Zostera in quiet waters. ..."

5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... embryos is shown in the remarkable construction of the embryo in the genus Zostera. Here the portion of the embryo which exhibits further development in ..."

6. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"The error that coupled these two plants together is briefly this : Linnaeus constituted his genus Zostera from the common ..."

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