Lexic.us

Definition of Genus pseudotsuga

1. Noun. Douglas fir; closely related to genera Larix and Cathaya.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pseudotsuga

Literary usage of Genus pseudotsuga

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)
"(P. macrocarpa) BIG CONE SPRUCE The genus Pseudotsuga stands intermediate between the hemlocks and firs, but the common name, as well as family traits, ..."

2. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"Among the latter the genus Pseudotsuga stands out prominently as an almost ... In the genus Pseudotsuga similar spirals are to be met with as a constant ..."

3. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"The genus Pseudotsuga is a very peculiar and definite genus; its leaves are; linear and blunt, the exserted and conspicuous bracts of the cones are notched ..."

4. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"The red fir or Douglas spruce is of the genus Pseudotsuga. Fir is particularly subject to diseases of the wood. Many of the wood-rotting fungi which attack ..."

5. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1908)
"genus pseudotsuga.—Species of Douglas-fir. The sapwood is fairly broad, the heartwood reddish-brown, as in larch, and cannot be distinguished externally ..."

6. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"Genus PSEUDOTSUGA. A genus of a single species midway between the firs and hemlock. Leaves somewhat two-ranked by a twist at the base. ..."

7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... 1 arborescent Taxus out of 2: being without representatives of the genus Pseudotsuga, Sequoia, Libocedrus, and Cupressus. There are to be added a large ..."

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