Definition of Genus Aralia

1. Noun. Type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aralia

genus Aplysia
genus Apocynum
genus Apodemus
genus Apogon
genus Aporocactus
genus Appendicularia
genus Aptenodytes
genus Apteryx
genus Apus
genus Aquila
genus Aquilegia
genus Ara
genus Arabidopsis
genus Arabis
genus Arachis
genus Aralia (current term)
genus Aramus
genus Aranea
genus Araneus
genus Araucaria
genus Araujia
genus Arbutus
genus Arca
genus Arcella
genus Arceuthobium
genus Archaeopteryx
genus Archaeornis
genus Archeopteryx
genus Archidiskidon
genus Archilochus

Literary usage of Genus Aralia

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The genus Aralia contains a considerable number of species—trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. ... The genus Aralia and an allied genus, Arali. ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The genus Aralia as understood by the older botanists turns out to be a polymorphous group, and in the segregation of other genera it is often difficult ..."

3. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"The Aralia family has no representative in eastern North America outside of the genus Aralia and only one woody plant, Aralia spinosa, a small tree of the ..."

4. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1876)
"... of Liquidambar integrifolium ; and this apparent similarity can but suggest the possible reference of all these and like forms to the genus Aralia. ..."

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