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Definition of Genus Boehmeria
1. Noun. False nettle.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Urticaceae, Nettle Family, Urticaceae
Member holonyms: Bog Hemp, False Nettle, Boehmeria Nivea, China Grass, Chinese Silk Plant, Ramee, Ramie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Boehmeria
Literary usage of Genus Boehmeria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1851)
"... first established the genus Boehmeria, but so little did he understand the
genus himself, and so minute are the characters, that in 1770 he published a ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"This substance is the fibre of two (or perhaps more) species or varieties of the
genus Boehmeria, nat. ord. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"This substance is the fibre of two (or perhaps more) species or varieties of the
genus Boehmeria, nat. ord. ..."
4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemis (1902)
"... Chemist to the National (now Royal) Agricultural Society, Victoria, Australia, *c.
RAMIE is the bast fibre of several varieties of the genus Boehmeria ..."
5. The Fibrous Plants of India Fitted for Cordage, Clothing, and Paper: With an by John Forbes Royle (1855)
"Many of the Nettles formerly placed in the genus Urtica have been removed to the
genus Boehmeria, which includes what are sometimes called stingless Nettles ..."
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