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Definition of Genus scilla
1. Noun. Sometimes placed in subfamily Hyacinthaceae.
Group relationships: Family Liliaceae, Liliaceae, Lily Family
Member holonyms: Scilla, Squill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Scilla
Literary usage of Genus scilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"The species of the genus Scilla have petals with a longitudinal nerve running
along their ... The genus Scilla is likewise nearly related to that of Hy- ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The plant is closely related to the genus Scilla, but in the opinion of the
undersigned it is much closer to Or- ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus scilla SCILLA (the old Greek name for these plants). A genus of about eighty
species of bulbous perennials with slender, radical leaves, ..."
4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"... The genus Scilla is an exotic, containing the squill, a medicinal plant, and
the hare-bell of English poets ; the latter is SCILLA ..."
5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"It is Urginea scilla. formerly included in the genus Scilla, the fleshy bulbs of
which are sliced for market, the extreme outside scales and the central ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1842)
"... and separated from the old genus Scilla, from which it differs in the possession
of the nectariferous glands on the ovary, and other minor points. ..."
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