Definition of Genus anagallis

1. Noun. Chiefly Old World herbs.

Exact synonyms: Anagallis
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Pimpernel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Anagallis

genus Amphicarpa
genus Amphicarpaea
genus Amphioxus
genus Amphiprion
genus Amphisbaena
genus Amphisbaenia
genus Amphiuma
genus Amsinckia
genus Amsonia
genus Amygdalus
genus Anabas
genus Anabrus
genus Anacardium
genus Anacyclus
genus Anadenanthera
genus Anagallis
genus Anagasta
genus Anagyris
genus Ananas
genus Anaphalis
genus Anarhichas
genus Anas
genus Anasa
genus Anastatica
genus Anastomus
genus Anatotitan
genus Anchusa
genus Ancistrodon
genus Ancylus
genus Andira

Literary usage of Genus anagallis

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

1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The genus Anagallis is indeed the only one belonging to the order which ... The genus Anagallis is remarkable for the beauty and elegance of its flowers. ..."

2. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"genus anagallis (Pimpernel). A. an^ensis (Poor-man's Weather-glass). Medical properties: Poison, nervine, expectorant, stimulant. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"PIMPERNEL, a flowering plant of the primrose family and genus Anagallis, with a wheel-shaped corolla. The scarlet or field pimpernel (A. arvensis) is wild ..."

4. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"I should have placed it in the genus Anagallis, only that D'Urville speaks of the dehiscence of the fruit as decidedly that of a Lysimachia. Fig. 1. ..."

5. 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)
"In 1618 it was small flowers are usually scarlet with a purple Pim'pernel, a flowering plant of the primrose family and genus Anagallis, with a wheel- ..."

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