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Definition of Montia
1. Noun. Small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, Purslane Family
Member holonyms: Indian Lettuce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Montia
Literary usage of Montia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Montia linearis (Dougl.) Greene, 1. c. Stems branching, erect or diffuse, ...
Montia Viae A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 42: 48. 1906. Annual, with fibrous roots; ..."
2. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1907)
"These evidently come nearest to Montia of all the sections of Claytonia. ...
The difference between the two genera Claytonia and Montia as now limited is ..."
3. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany edited by Amos Arthur Heller, Patrick Beveridge Kennedy (1907)
"A short time before seeing the Montia, I had printed, not published, in my list
of Idaho plants of 1896,3 combination which I had intended to publish under ..."
4. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany by Amos Arthur Heller (1907)
"A short time before seeing the Montia, I had printed, not published, in my list
of Idaho plants of 1896,3 combination which I had intended to publish under ..."
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