Definition of Genus taxus

1. Noun. Yews.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Taxus

genus Tanacetum
genus Tantilla
genus Tapirus
genus Taraktagenos
genus Taraktogenos
genus Taraxacum
genus Taricha
genus Tarpon
genus Tarrietia
genus Tarsius
genus Taurotragus
genus Tautoga
genus Tautogolabrus
genus Taxidea
genus Taxodium
genus Taxus
genus Tectaria
genus Tectona
genus Telanthera
genus Tellima
genus Telopea
genus Templetonia
genus Tenrec
genus Tephrosia
genus Terebella
genus Teredo
genus Termes
genus Terrapene
genus Terrietia

Literary usage of Genus taxus

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

1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... genus Taxus is distinguished by a solitary terminal seed, surrounded by a succulent cup. The species are diffused over the whole northern parts of the ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In the genus Taxus (Fig. 350) the female flower is composed of a single ovule which forms the end of a small shoot, and below the ovule there are a number ..."

3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Many of these genera have the leaves divided into long slender slips, but in the true Yews the leaves are simply acicular. The existing genus Taxus, ..."

4. The Yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland by John Lowe (1897)
"CHAPTER I Taxus baccata, L.—Varieties—Etymology of Yew—Epithets. Taxus baccata, Linn., the Common Yew, belongs to the genus Taxus, the type of the natural ..."

5. Proceedings, International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization by C. Raveret-Wattel (1904)
"This cannot be said of the genus Taxus, however. The common European yew, Taxus baccata, needs a protected situation to enable it to pull through a severe ..."

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