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Definition of Genista
1. Noun. Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Broom Tree, Genista Anglica, Needle Furze, Petty Whin, Genista Hispanica, Spanish Broom, Spanish Gorse, Dyer's Greenweed, Dyer's-broom, Dyeweed, Genista Tinctoria, Greenweed, Whin, Woadwaxen, Woodwaxen
Definition of Genista
1. n. A genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe.
Definition of Genista
1. a plant [n -S]
Medical Definition of Genista
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Genista
Literary usage of Genista
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"genista humillar Pannonica. Tourn. Lower Broom of Pannonia. iz. ... Shrubby African
Broom, with narrow But- chers broom-leaves. 15. genista ..."
2. English Heraldry by Charles Boutell (1867)
"The Broom-plant with its seed-pods, in Latin Planta genista, No. 21, gave their
name to the PLANTA- No. 20. Shield of Montacute. No. 21.—Planta genista. ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"Genus genista, genista (the classical Latin name used by Virgil). A genus of
about seventy species of shrubs with simple leaves (occasionally trefoils), ..."
4. Flashlights on Nature by Grant Allen (1905)
"5-—ITS FIRST COUSIN, THE genista. In No. 5 I have chosen for illustration and
comparison a full-grown shoot of the common- scented yellow genista, ..."
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