Definition of Genus scabiosa

1. Noun. Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean.

Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Dipsacaceae, Family Dipsacaceae
Member holonyms: Scabiosa, Scabious

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Scabiosa

genus Sarracenia
genus Satureia
genus Satureja
genus Saturnia
genus Sauromalus
genus Saurosuchus
genus Saururus
genus Saussurea
genus Saxe-gothea
genus Saxegothea
genus Saxicola
genus Saxifraga
genus Sayornis
genus Scabiosa
genus Scaphiopus
genus Scaphosepalum
genus Scarabaeus
genus Scardinius
genus Scartella
genus Sceliphron
genus Sceloglaux
genus Sceloporus
genus Schaffneria
genus Schefflera
genus Schinus
genus Schistosoma
genus Schizachyrium
genus Schizaea

Literary usage of Genus scabiosa

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

1. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"It is a useful plant for summer flowers. Scabious. The genus Scabiosa. Blue. Scabiosa Buccina. Caucasian. Scabiosa Caucásica. Devil's Bit. ..."

2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... genus scabiosa SCABIOSA (Latin, scabies, the itch; formerly used as a medicine in skin diseases). A genus consisting of about eighty species of ..."

3. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1846)
"Weeds of the genus Scabiosa, at one time celebrated for curing the itch. SCABROUS. Rough, from minute inequalities. SCAFFOLDING. The temporary frame-work ..."

4. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... genus Scabiosa ; one of them in October soon after the first spring rains clothes the meadows and pastures of ..."

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