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Definition of Genus Callitris
1. Noun. Evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Cupressaceae, Cypress Family, Family Cupressaceae
Member holonyms: Cypress Pine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Callitris
Literary usage of Genus Callitris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"... the Australasia- African genus Callitris, and the Australasia-South American
genus Fitzroya. The occurrence of these widely separated genera, ..."
2. Supplementary Papers (1893)
"Of the cypress sub-family of the Coni/erse, the genus Callitris is found in
Africa, Madagascar, and Australia ; and Fitzroya, in Chili and Tasmania. ..."
3. Observations on New Vegetable Fossils of the Auriferous Drifts by Ferdinand von Mueller (1874)
"These illustrations indeed show sufficiently, that the margins of the fruit valves
are contiguous, precisely as in the existing genus Callitris, ..."
4. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"Well-preserved cone-bearing remains of the genus Callitris are also known from
the Tertiary strata in the South of France, and will be found figured in ..."
5. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"... the Australasia- African genus Callitris, and the Australasia-South American
genus Fitzroya. The occurrence of these widely separated genera, ..."
6. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"... of the genus Callitris Vent., to which Eichler in his treatment of the living
species in p]ngler and Prantl (1887) refers ..."
7. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"... forms a new genus. Callitris is quite peculiar to New Holland ; and
the ' -..M-.'- Araucaria excelsa (Jiff. 881.), reckoned among the loftiest trees in ..."
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