Definition of Genus alopecurus

1. Noun. Annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alopecurus

genus Alepisaurus
genus Aletris
genus Aleurites
genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria
genus Alligator
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia
genus Aloe
genus Alopecurus
genus Alopex
genus Alopius
genus Alosa
genus Alouatta
genus Alpinia
genus Alsobia
genus Alsophila
genus Alstonia
genus Alstroemeria
genus Alternanthera
genus Althaea
genus Alyssum
genus Alytes
genus Amanita

Literary usage of Genus alopecurus

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

1. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"It is a useless weed introduced by 'seeds ' used for the adulteration of those of sweet vernal-grass (see p. 673). genus alopecurus. ..."

2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"genus alopecurus. c. Panicles cylindrical and spike-like, spikelets one-flowered, compressed, flower protogynous ; empty glumes without awns, fringed with ..."

3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1881)
"... species of the genus Alopecurus, and others those of the genus Trifolium, but these assertions are not published on "authority sufficiently reliable. ..."

4. Outlines of the First Course of Yale Agricultural Lectures by John Addison Porter (1860)
"There are five varieties of the genus (Alopecurus), viz. : A. pratensis, A. agrostis, A. geniculatus, ..."

5. An illustrated natural history of British moths by Edward Newman (1869)
"Some authors have asserted that it spares the specics of the genus Alopecurus, and others those of the genus ..."

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