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Definition of Eustoma
1. Noun. Small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Bluebell, Eustoma Grandiflorum, Prairie Gentian, Tulip Gentian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eustoma
Literary usage of Eustoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... because the placent» are connivent in the middle of the cell, but in eustoma
the placent» are separated from each other by a considerable space. ..."
2. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1805)
"Silene-leaved eustoma. ORDO NATURALIS. Gentianae. Juss. Gen. p. 141. ... I only
know one more species of eustoma, which is the Gentiana ..."
3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"I find this structure only in the genus eustoma and in Gentiana lutea. ...
Neither eustoma nor Gentiana lutea are, theoretically speaking, ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"P. eustoma grows in both places, and so far as soil is concerned they are very
likely to produce P. ..."
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