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Definition of Cycloloma
1. Noun. A caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Chenopodiaceae, Family Chenopodiaceae, Goosefoot Family
Member holonyms: Cycloloma Atriplicifolium, Tumbleweed, Winged Pigweed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycloloma
Literary usage of Cycloloma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... complete ring in the mealy endosperm. [Greek, circle-border, alluding to the
calyx-wing.] A monotypic genus of north central North America. i. cycloloma ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1901)
"cycloloma ON CAPE COD.—On August 22 last I collected in Orleans, Mass., a plant
which was determined at the Gray Herbarium as cycloloma platyphyllum, ..."
3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"cycloloma. (Mao. p. 372 ; IF f. 1376 ) Along streams and on banks, Man. to the
NW Terr., 111., Neb. and Ariz.—Pennsylvania: PHILADELPHIA, Fairmount I'ark. ..."
4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1893)
"The cycloloma is hairy, the Corispermum coriaceous, and but a few inches high.
The order Gramínea? is well represented in this region, as well as farther ..."
5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Among such plants, which are especially common on the prairies and plains, are
the winged pigweed (cycloloma), the Russian thistle (Salsola Kali tenuifolia) ..."
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