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Definition of Genus Amygdalus

1. Noun. Used in former classifications for peach and almond trees which are now included in genus Prunus.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amygdalus

Literary usage of Genus Amygdalus

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

1. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"The family Amygdala of Lindley, comprehends the peach and almond of the genus Amygdalus, with the plum, cherry, and pomegranate. These, which were placed by ..."

2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"|HE genus Amygdalus belongs to the same natural family as the rose, and other trees which produce the most useful and agreeable fruits of the temperate ..."

3. A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in (1830)
"With the exception of the peach, the nectarine, and the almond, which form the genus Amygdalus, the whole of the stone-fruits are contained in the genus ..."

4. Peach-growing by Harris Perley Gould (1918)
"Linnaeus, in 1753, placed it in the genus Amygdalus, calling the species Amygdalus Persica. Fifteen years later Philip Miller placed it in the separate ..."

5. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"The necessity of reducing the genus Amygdalus to that of Prunus was indicated in 1812 already by Stokes (Bot. Mat. Met. HI. 101) and in 1813 by FG Hayne ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Others have classed it with the almond as a distinct genus, Amygdalus; while others again have considered it sufficiently distinct to constitute a separate ..."

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