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Definition of Genus tacca
1. Noun. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Taccaceae, Taccaceae
Member holonyms: Indian Arrowroot, Pia, Tacca Leontopetaloides, Tacca Pinnatifida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tacca
Literary usage of Genus tacca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"PINEAPPLE. In some parts of the Philippines, particularly in parts of Palawan,
the pineapple has become thoroughly naturalized. Family TACCACEAE Genus TACCA ..."
2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... tropical genus Tacca, belonging to the regular-flowered monocotyledons with
an inferior ovary, has been considered sufficiently distinct in organisation ..."
3. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"In the instance of the genus Tacca there is in Fiji an inland species, T.
maculata, associated with a wide-ranging beach species, T. pinnatifida, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"The tropical genus Tacca, belonging to the group of regular-flowered monocotyledons
with an inferior ovary, has been considered sufficiently distinct in ..."
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