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Definition of Biscutella
1. Noun. Genus of Eurasian herbs and small shrubs: buckler mustard.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, Family Brassicaceae, Family Cruciferae, Mustard Family
Member holonyms: Biscutalla Laevigata, Buckler Mustard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biscutella
Literary usage of Biscutella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"This genus scarcely differs from Biscutella, with which it might perhaps, without
much violence, be united. It is distinguished by the erect sepals, ..."
2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"Biscutella auriculata. Willden. sp. pi. 3. p. 472. Schkuhr handb. 2. p. 237- t.
182. Ear-podded Buckler-mustard. Nat. of France and Italy. Cult. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"On a Discontinuous Variation occurring in Biscutella ... The observations recorded
in this paper were made upon Biscutella ..."
4. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"But in Biscutella the embryo, with reference to its usual direction in the family,
is not really inverted, the radicle being still placed above the ..."
5. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... Cochlearia, Biscutella, Thlaspi, Iberis, Cakile, and Chorispora. The seeds of
the genera just mentioned further differ amongst themselves in being ovoid ..."
6. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"Cell« adnate laterally to the axis. Style long, permanent. Embryo inverted.—(G.
Don.} 1.—Biscutella HISPIDA, Dec. ..."
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