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Definition of Lindera
1. Noun. Aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, Laurel Family
Member holonyms: American Spicebush, Benjamin Bush, Benzoin Odoriferum, Lindera Benzoin, Spice Bush, Spicebush
Definition of Lindera
1. Noun. (botany) Any plant of the genus ''Lindera'', flowering shrubs and trees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lindera
Literary usage of Lindera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1818)
"... for converting method of making rollers and t-, - the fuel for heating the
retorts of lindera, both solid and hollow. gas-lights into coak or charcoal. ..."
2. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"The most beautiful, perhaps, of the Japanese species is Lindera umbellata, ...
As a garden-plant for this region, Lindera obtusiloba is, perhaps, ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"S. Lindera. Flowers in sessile lateral clusters, with a в-parted honey-yellow
calyx: sterile ones with 9 stamens having simply ..."
4. The Exhibition of the Empire of Japan, Official Catalogue by Japan (1904)
"Lindera triloba, Bl. (Shiro- mo ji ). Lindera obtusiloba, HI. ... Lindera glauca,
Bl. (Yama- kol>ashi). Lindera sericea, Bl. (Kuro- m о ji ) . ..."
5. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1913)
"The male flowers of Lindera benzoin, a closely allied genus, are similar to ...
The female flowers of lindera, however, differ from the female flowers of ..."
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