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Definition of Genus Amorpha
1. Noun. American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides.
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Amorpha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amorpha
Literary usage of Genus Amorpha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees, Shrubs and Vines of the Northeastern United States by Howard Elmore Parkhurst (1903)
"... blue and purple figure very little in nature's painting; so that the genus
Amorpha, containing two or three species in the Park, is at least a novelty, ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... the united petals and stamens in this genus. Amorpha means deformed or without
shape as the flowers appear to be because of the absence of four petals. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... Boynton, "Studies in the genus Amorpha" ; Boynton, "Two New Southern Species
of Coreopsis" ; Boynton, " Notes from a Collector's Field Book "; Harbison, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association at Its ... Annual by Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association (1889)
"The' plants are botanically closely related to the genus Amorpha, of which the
indigenous A.fruticosa has a bark rich in tannin and contain- ing a brown-red ..."
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