Definition of Juglans

1. Noun. Type genus of the Juglandaceae.


Definition of Juglans

1. n. A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.

Definition of Juglans

1. Noun. The walnut and similar trees of the genus ''Juglans'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Juglans

1. A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut. Origin: L, walnut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Juglans

juggleries
jugglers
jugglery
juggles
juggling
jugglingly
jugglings
juggs
jughandle
jughandles
jughead
jugheads
juglandaceous
juglandin
juglandine
juglans (current term)
juglet
juglets
juglike
jugline
juglines
juglone
juglone hydroxylase
juglones
jugomaxillary
jugs
jugsful
jugula
jugular
jugular bulb

Literary usage of Juglans

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"THE METHOD OF DISTINGUISHING SPECIES OF POPULUS AND juglans BY THE YOUNG NAKED ... I have studied four species of Populus and two of juglans, all natives of ..."

2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"To this substance is doubtless due the greater part of the activity of the bark. Preparations.—Extractum juglandis—extract of juglans. ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"THIS variety of cultivated nut (juglans regia, Linné), of which we have here a drawing of the fruit and of a branch, is remarkable for the shape and ..."

4. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"The black walnut tree (juglans nigra L.), a native of America, ... This American nut, the fruit of juglans cinerea L.; differs from the black walnut chiefly ..."

5. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1878)
"Flora, p. 287, pi. Ivi, figs. 3, 4. 469. juglans Schimperi ... Plants of Vancouver, p. 9, pi. 2, tigs. 4-7. 476. juglans egregia ..."

6. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"A'ux juglans foliis ... In the gardens of the Trianon, near Paris, there is a hybrid between juglans regia and J. nigra, which partakes in an equal degree ..."

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