Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Amelanchier

1. Noun. North American deciduous trees or shrubs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amelanchier

Literary usage of Genus Amelanchier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"|HE genus Amelanchier occurs in but two forms sufficiently distinct to be regarded as species, namely, the common amelan- chier of Europe, (A. vulgaris,) ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Notes on the genus Amelanchier: By NL BRITTON. Specimens illustrating the five eastern species, A. Canadensis, ..."

3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... genus Amelanchier occurs in southern Europe, northern Africa, China and Japan, and in southwestern Asia as well as in eastern and western North America. ..."

4. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"Genus Pyrus (Chokeberry, etc.), page TOO. Genus Crataegus in part (Thorns), page 104. genus Amelanchier (Shad-bush), page 108. Itea, page 112. ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"Medicus put it into his genus Amelanchier in 1793. But it has another name. When the son of Linnaeus transferred his father's Mespilus canadensis to the ..."

6. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"SHAD BUSH. Amelanchier canadensis, (Linnaeus) Mendicus. GENUS DESCRIPTION—The genus Amelanchier comprise« about 30 species of email trees and shrubs found ..."

7. Bush-fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"He reports all of these more satisfactory in Iowa than either the eastern United States or European species. The genus Amelanchier, to which the ..."

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