Definition of Genus genista

1. Noun. Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Genista

genus Gastrocybe
genus Gastrolobium
genus Gastrophryne
genus Gaultheria
genus Gavia
genus Gavialis
genus Gaylussacia
genus Gazania
genus Gazella
genus Geastrum
genus Gelechia
genus Gelsemium
genus Gempylus
genus Genetta
genus Genipa
genus Genista
genus Genlisea
genus Gentiana
genus Gentianella
genus Gentianopsis
genus Genyonemus
genus Geochelone
genus Geococcyx
genus Geoffroea
genus Geoglossum
genus Geomys
genus Geophilus
genus Geothlypis
genus Geranium
genus Gerardia

Literary usage of Genus genista

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"genus genista, GENISTA (the classical Latin name used by Virgil). A genus of about seventy species of shrubs with simple leaves (occasionally trefoils), ..."

2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"... while in others the crop is cut once every two years; in the latter case alternate rows are cut. Dyer's Greenwood or Woad-wax (genus genista). ..."

3. Essex Institute Historical Collections by Essex Institute (1896)
"Webster calls it the "woad waxen, a plant of the genus Genista {Genista tinctoria) ; dyer's broom, or dyer's weed, called also wood wash, and wood wax and ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"One of the handsomest species in the genus Genista is G. virgata, which is hardy enough at Kew, many large bushes having withstood probably more than thirty ..."

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