Definition of Genus gymnocladus

1. Noun. Small genus of deciduous trees of China and United States having paniculate flowers and thick pulpy pods.

Exact synonyms: Gymnocladus
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caesalpinioideae, Subfamily Caesalpinioideae
Member holonyms: Bonduc, Chicot, Gymnocladus Dioica, Kentucky Coffee Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gymnocladus

genus Grias
genus Grindelia
genus Griselinia
genus Grison
genus Groenlandia
genus Grus
genus Guaiacum
genus Guevina
genus Gulo
genus Gutierrezia
genus Gymnadenia
genus Gymnadeniopsis
genus Gymnelis
genus Gymnocalycium
genus Gymnocarpium
genus Gymnocladus
genus Gymnogyps
genus Gymnopilus
genus Gymnorhina
genus Gymnosporangium
genus Gymnura
genus Gynura
genus Gypaetus
genus Gyps
genus Gypsophila
genus Gyromitra
genus Haastia
genus Habenaria
genus Hackelia
genus Haemanthus

Literary usage of Genus gymnocladus

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

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Torrey and Gray, Flora. genus Gymnocladus comprises but one species, a deciduous tree, native of North America, with upright branches, and inconspicuous ..."

2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus GYMNOCLADUS, K. Koch. (G. dioicus) KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE BB. Leaves once compound; flowers pea-like, showy, in racemes, pods thin. ..."

3. Native Trees of Kentucky: A Handbook by Sarah Webb Maury (1910)
"C. genus gymnocladus—Kentucky Coffee Tree. D. Genus Cladrastis—Yellow Wood. E. Genus Cercis—Redbud. They are characterized by 1. Leaves—alternate, pinnately ..."

4. Annual Report by Columbus Horticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio (1896)
"... in 1783 Lamark transferred the species to the genus Gymnocladus. He should have retained the specific name dioica, but he proposed a new one and ..."

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