Definition of Roystonea

1. Noun. A monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Roystonea

Royal
Royal Academy
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Air Force
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Mail
Royal Marines
Royal National Eisteddfod
Royal Navy
Royal Society
Royal Society of London for Improving Natual Knowl
Royce
Royston
Royston crow
Royston crows
Roystonea
Roystonea oleracea
Roystonea regia
Rs virus
Rsr1p(Bud1p) GTPase
Rt. Rev'd.
Rt. Rev.
Rt. Revd.
Rt Hon
Rt Rev
Rth.
RtoL
Ru
Ru.
RuBisCO

Literary usage of Roystonea

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

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus roystonea, Cook The Royal Palm (roystonea regia, Cook) is one of the noblest of tropical trees, bearing its abundant crown of foliage, each leaf 10 to ..."

2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus roystonea, Cook BB. Fruit orange-scarlet, among leaves. ... Genus roystonea, Cook The Royal Palm (roystonea regia, Cook) is one of the noblest of ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"It should be said that I have not seen the colony of trees from which the specimen came on which Mr. Cook bases his roystonea Floridana (Curtiss, no. ..."

4. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1905)
"F. Cook to be distinct, Prof. Britton concludes that the two palms are one and the same species. In other words, roystonea ..."

5. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1905)
"roystonea is confined to the tropics of the New World, where two or three species occur. The genus as here limited was named for General Roy Stone of the ..."

6. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1905)
"roystonea is confined to the tropics-of the New World, where two or three species occur. The genus as here limited was named for General Roy Stone of the ..."

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