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Definition of Hugo De Vries
1. Noun. Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935).
Generic synonyms: Botanist, Phytologist, Plant Scientist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hugo De Vries
Literary usage of Hugo De Vries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"... from the environment that somehow affect the germ-plasm.8 Hugo De Vries (1848- )
Mutations Three quotations at the very beginning of De Vries' Species ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"Hugo de Vries, On Wood which repairs Wounds (not finished). ... Hugo de Vries,
On Growth in Length of Tendrils which curve on the Upper or the Lower Side. ..."
3. Proceedings, International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization (1904)
"A paper on "Artificial Atavism," by Hugo de Vries, Director of the Botanical
Gardens, Amsterdam, was read hy DT ..."
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