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Definition of Empetrum
1. Noun. Crowberries.
Exact synonyms: Genus Empetrum
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Crowberry Family, Empetraceae, Family Empetraceae
Member holonyms: Crowberry
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Crowberry Family, Empetraceae, Family Empetraceae
Member holonyms: Crowberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empetrum
Literary usage of Empetrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"from empetrum.* The latter is alpine, and in both its species presents the same
general features and habit. The three former, on the contrary, ..."
2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"I have examined the axis in empetrum, Corema album, ... The perforations of the
vessels are scalariform (with as many as ten bars) in empetrum, ..."