Lexic.us

Definition of Crateva

1. Noun. Tropical genus of small trees or shrubs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crateva

Literary usage of Crateva

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

1. 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)
"And it will be difficult to distinguish this African Crateva from a plant which seems to be the most general species of India; except that in the latter, ..."

2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1800)
"... of Crateva. The further examination of the other parts of their ... and, {hewing how far they differ from the Crateva in other important points, ..."

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"Hippocrates therefore in his Epistle to Crateva, an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that if it were possible, '3 amongst other herbs, he should cut ..."

4. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"35; but then its affinity to the Crateva Marmelos of ... of which I am now writing, the Kot, or wild Bel, while the Crateva Marmelos is called simply Bel. ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton, William Otter (1804)
"Hippocrates therefore, in his epistle to Crateva an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that, if it were possible, c amongst other ..."

6. 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)
"And it will be difficult to distinguish this African Crateva from a plant which seems to be the most general species of India; except that in the latter, ..."

7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1800)
"... of Crateva. The further examination of the other parts of their ... and, {hewing how far they differ from the Crateva in other important points, ..."

8. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"Hippocrates therefore in his Epistle to Crateva, an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that if it were possible, '3 amongst other herbs, he should cut ..."

9. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"35; but then its affinity to the Crateva Marmelos of ... of which I am now writing, the Kot, or wild Bel, while the Crateva Marmelos is called simply Bel. ..."

10. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton, William Otter (1804)
"Hippocrates therefore, in his epistle to Crateva an herbalist, gives him this good counsel, that, if it were possible, c amongst other ..."

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