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Definition of Genus Agathis
1. Noun. Kauri pine.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Araucaria Family, Araucariaceae, Family Araucariaceae
Member holonyms: Dammar Pine, Kauri Pine, Agathis Australis, Kauri, Kaury, Agathis Robusta, Dundathu Pine, Queensland Kauri, Smooth Bark Kauri, Agathis Lanceolata, Red Kauri
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Agathis
Literary usage of Genus Agathis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"Taking as an example the genus Agathis, the kauri of Australasia and the East
Indian region, we find in the first annual ring an organization distinctly ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The genus Agathis (Dammara) is confined to tropical and subtropical regions of
Indo-Malaysia and Australasia. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"... and thus does not include the resins from the genus Agathis (or Dammara,)
which are known as ..."
4. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"The name was applied to the Kauri Pine by Lambert in 1832, but it was afterwards
found that Salisbury, in 1805, had previously constituted the genus Agathis ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... Indian and Australian genus Agathis of coniferous trees,— a native of New
Zealand, where it grows only at the northern extremity of the North Island. ..."
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