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Definition of Apios
1. Noun. Twining perennial North American plants.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Apios Americana, Apios Tuberosa, Groundnut, Groundnut Vine, Indian Potato, Potato Bean, Wild Bean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apios
Literary usage of Apios
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"The name of Apios is taken from Apion, a pear, in reference to the shape of the
tuberous roots. There is only one species in the genus, which was formerly ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... flowers brown-purple, violet-scented; standard unappendaged at the summit.
{A. Apios MacM.)—Thickets, NB to Fla., Minn., Kan., and La. July-Sept. 2. ..."
3. The American Botanist: A Monthly Journal for the Plant Lover edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1907)
"REPRODUCTION IN Apios TUBEROSA. BY EE BALDWIN*. IN an article on the fruiting of
Apios tuberosa published in the Botanist, last fall, it was noted that in ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"G.Apios, Standard produced at the apex into a thickened appendage : tubers large,
... Apios tuberosa Moench, Meth. 165. 1794. Apios Apios MacM. Bull. Torr. ..."
5. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"... movements of leaves—Heliotropic movements of Beta, Solanum, Zea, and
Avena—Heliotropic movements towards an obscure light in Apios, Brassica, Phalaris, ..."
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