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Definition of Beaumontia
1. Noun. Small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Beaumontia Grandiflora, Easter Lily Vine, Nepal Trumpet Flower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaumontia
Literary usage of Beaumontia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... in Turkey and the Crimea, by Lord Raglan and Sir James Scarlett." Beaumontia
GRANDIFLORA.— Wall. ..."
2. Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and edited by Charles Mason Hovey (1846)
"... Mr. Wiltshire, a group of Achi- menes; Mr. Beaton, flowers of Beaumontia
grandiflora; and Mr. Street, large specimens of Champion Cucumber. ..."
3. On the Structure and Affinities of the "tabulate Corals" of the Palaeozoic by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1879)
"The genus Beaumontia was founded by Milne-Edwards and Haime (loc. cit. supra) for
... The distinguished French observers just quoted regard Beaumontia as ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"Beaumontia, the genus noticed above, is distinguished by MM. Milne- Edwards and
Jules Haime § as follows: — " This genus is distinguished from all other ..."
5. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1852)
"This last-mentioned fossil was found in Wiltshire. 2. Genus Beaumontia.S 1. ...
The genus Beaumontia has been established by us since the publication of the ..."
6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"Beaumontia, the genus noticed above, is distinguished by MM. Milne- Edwards and
Jules Haime § as follows:—" This genus is distinguished from all other ..."
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