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Definition of Genus Adansonia
1. Noun. Baobab; cream-of-tartar tree.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Bombacaceae, Family Bombacaceae
Member holonyms: Adansonia Gregorii, Cream-of-tartar Tree, Sour Gourd, Adansonia Digitata, Baobab, Monkey-bread Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Adansonia
Literary usage of Genus Adansonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1907)
"Then there is the genus Adansonia, to which the familiar Baobab-tree belongs.
Of its four species, two are African, one belongs to Madagascar, ..."
2. Lost Crops of Africa: Volume Ii: Vegetables by National Research Council (U. S.) (2006)
"Nonetheless, Linnaeus honored his rival by naming the tree's genus Adansonia.
Linnaeus sometimes selected names meant as insults, so the fact that baobab is ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"with the peculiar genus Adansonia (the Baobab, which is the largest known tree
in the world), belong to the characteristics of this country. ..."
4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1826)
"... with the peculiar genus Adansonia, belong to the characteristics of this
country, but I dare not name the region from thence. The interior of Africa is ..."
5. A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical, and by Matthew O'Brien, David Thomas Ansted, Julian R. Jackson, William Latham Bevan (1852)
"This region is characterized by a considerable number of grasses and sedges, and
the peculiar genus Adansonia, the baobab, (the largest known tree in the ..."
6. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1826)
"... with the peculiar genus Adansonia, belong to the characteristics of this
country, but I dare not name the region from thence. The interior of Africa is ..."
7. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"As a genus Adansonia seems to be chiefly distinguished from Bom- bax (whose habit
it has, and to which Linnaeus and Cavanilles say it is too nearly allied) ..."
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