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Definition of Nageia
1. Noun. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Podocarpaceae, Podocarpaceae, Podocarpus Family
Member holonyms: Nageia Nagi, Nagi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nageia
Literary usage of Nageia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"Select Plants for Industrial Culture and Nageia (Podocarpus) ... Nageia (Podocarpus)
elata, R. Brown. East-Australia to 35° S. A fine timber-tree, ..."
2. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"... Dacrydium, Podocarpus (excepting the section Nageia), and Tsuga with exception
of T. Douglasii Carr.—there is one constant re<in-passage between the ..."
3. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent, James Veitch & Sons (1900)
"In 1788 the German botanist, Gaertner, gave it generic rank as Nageia ...
Podocarpus Nageia has been assiduously cultivated by the Japanese from time ..."
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