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Definition of Germens
1. germen [n] - See also: germen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Germens
Literary usage of Germens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"S.petiolaris, leaves lanceolate serrated glabrous glaucous and often silky beneath,
germens pedicellate ovate silky, stigmas sessile 2-lobed. p. 280. ..."
2. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures & Descriptions of the by Robert Sweet, Edwin Dalton Smith (1825)
"germens 2 or 3, erect, or slightly curved inwards, thickly clothed with a shining
... I. germens, showing their dense silky down, terminated with their red ..."
3. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1839)
"Flower- stalks nearly capillary, smooth. Mouth of the Calyx closed by a yellow,
fleshy ring. germens 1 or 2. Seeds 1 or 2. Style» lateral. ..."
4. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by William Jackson Hooker, William Borrer, James Sowerby (1834)
"The style is not cloven, and the stigmas spread but little. The underside is
blueish in young leaves. The specimens with " partially silky germens" ..."
5. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"germens stalked ; stigmas sessile, bind. 8. ... Leaves oblong, nearly entire,
smooth, livid beneath; germens pedicellate, somewhat silky ; stigmas somewhat ..."
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