Definition of Genus bassia

1. Noun. Summer cypress.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bassia

genus Balanus
genus Balistes
genus Ballota
genus Balsamorhiza
genus Bambusa
genus Bankia
genus Banksia
genus Baphia
genus Baptisia
genus Barbarea
genus Barosaurus
genus Bartle-Frere
genus Bartramia
genus Basiliscus
genus Bathyergus
genus Batis
genus Batrachoseps
genus Bauhinia
genus Beaumontia
genus Begonia
genus Belamcanda
genus Bellis
genus Bemisia
genus Bennettitis
genus Benzoin
genus Berberis
genus Bergenia
genus Beroe

Literary usage of Genus bassia

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

1. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1886)
"... A globular five-celled fruit of large curing about five inches in diameter), which presents all (logic characteristics of the genus Bassia among ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The genus Bassia contains species valuable for the oils which they yield. The seeds of Mimusops Elengi also yield oil abundantly. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Under this name are comprised a number of oik belonging to the genus Bassia. The most important oils (or fats) derived from Bassia species are ..."

4. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"belong to the genus Bassia, of the order Sapo- tacea;; the butter-trees of Guiana and Brazil to the genus Caryocar (qv), of the order C'aryo- ..."

5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"... &c., which aro solid at common temperatures. Butter-tree. A name given to certain remarkable, trees of the genus Bassia, one of which, Bassia Parlai, ..."

6. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"... and from trees, probably of the genus Bassia, growing in the western countries of the Archipelago. ..."

7. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Under this name are comprised a number of oils belonging to the genus Bassia. The most important oils (or fats) derived from Saleta species are ..."

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