Definition of Genus malus

1. Noun. Apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Malus

genus Maia
genus Maianthemum
genus Maja
genus Majorana
genus Makaira
genus Malaclemys
genus Malacosoma
genus Malacothamnus
genus Malaxis
genus Malcolmia
genus Mallotus
genus Malope
genus Malopterurus
genus Malosma
genus Malpighia
genus Malus
genus Malva
genus Malvastrum
genus Malvaviscus
genus Mammea
genus Mammillaria
genus Mammut
genus Mammuthus
genus Mandevilla
genus Mandragora
genus Mandrillus
genus Manduca
genus Mangifera
genus Manihot
genus Manilkara

Literary usage of Genus malus

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

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... IOWA CRAB The genus Malus is native to the whole of eastern Asia. We have four native species. Our cultivated crab apples and the hundreds of orchard ..."

2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... the fruit is not hollowed at the base : the sub-genus Malus includes P. Mains and others, the Apple-trees ; the fruit is hollowed at the base, ..."

3. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Some authors make a distinct genus, Malus, for the Apple« and another one, Sorbus, for the Mountain Ashes. Both are Included under I'yni,' in this ..."

4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"Reciprocal hybridizations between standard orchard varieties and various species of the genus Malus have been made, fifty-seven species and varieties which ..."

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