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Definition of Chamaecrista
1. Noun. Genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having sensitive leaves and suddenly dehiscing pods; some species placed in genus Cassia.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caesalpinioideae, Subfamily Caesalpinioideae
Member holonyms: Cassia Fasciculata, Chamaecrista Fasciculata, Partridge Pea, Sensitive Pea, Wild Sensitive Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamaecrista
Literary usage of Chamaecrista
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Chamaecrista Moench, Meth. 272. 1794. Herbs or low shrubs, with evenly pinnate
... Massachusetts to Florida, Minne- Chamaecrista L., in our first edition. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"Chamaecrista mirabilis. Plant fruticose, erect, branching, 4-5 dm. high, quite
glabrous, the branches slender and wiry; leaves on the main stem ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William MacKinley Klein (1993)
"Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene Partridge-pea; Prairie senna Herbaceous
annual River banks, sandy flats, railroad cinders and serpentine barrens. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"TWO AND THREE PISTILS IN CASSIA Chamaecrista. IN the autumn of 1905 I chanced to
find a single flower of Cassia chamaecrista with two pistils (carpels), ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"... Arth. from Stipa spartea Trin. was sown on Aesculus glabra, Cassia Chamaecrista,
Psoralea Onobrychis, ..."
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