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Definition of Genus arachis
1. Noun. A genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut).
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Fabaceae, Family Fabaceae, Family Leguminosae, Legume Family, Leguminosae, Pea Family
Member holonyms: Arachis Hypogaea, Peanut, Peanut Vine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Arachis
Literary usage of Genus arachis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus arachis,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 518. Species 7, 6 Brazilian and 1
found throughout the tropics ..."
2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"Some authorities think that ground-nuts are indigenous to Africa, others that
the genus Arachis had its home in South America. On the whole the balance of ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"... in any part of the Islands, but is widely distributed and usually found on
high mountain ridges. Family LEGUMINOSAE Genus ARACHIS ARACHIS HYPOGAEA L. ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The genus arachis (a name of unknown origin) comprises seven species, six of
which are natives of Brazil, and one, the peanut, is of doubtful nativity, ..."
5. Bulletin by University of Pennsylvania University Museum. Dept. of Archaeology (1897)
"The strongest proofs of an American origin are botanical and archaeological.
The species of the genus Arachis to which the cultivated species, ..."
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