Definition of Genus Capparis

1. Noun. Tropical or subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees.

Exact synonyms: Capparis
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caper Family, Capparidaceae, Family Capparidaceae
Member holonyms: Caper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Capparis

genus Camptosorus
genus Campyloneurum
genus Campylorhynchus
genus Canachites
genus Cananga
genus Canangium
genus Canavalia
genus Cancer
genus Candida
genus Canella
genus Canis
genus Canna
genus Cannabis
genus Cantharellus
genus Capella
genus Capparis (current term)
genus Capra
genus Caprella
genus Capreolus
genus Capricornis
genus Caprimulgus
genus Capros
genus Capsella
genus Capsicum
genus Caragana
genus Caranx
genus Carcharhinus
genus Carcharias
genus Carcharodon

Literary usage of Genus Capparis

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Capparis has furnished a well-marked Wilcox species very close to the existing Antillean tree Capparis domingensis Sprengel. ..."

2. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"These exceptions occur chiefly in the genus Capparis, which, as it is at present constituted, includes species differing from each other in having an ..."

3. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"I shall here mention the principal natural assemblages of this class* The genus Capparis belongs to ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1847)
"... and some which are regarded as deleterious, dispersed throughout the Antilles, among these the genus Capparis presents many, which, when in blossom, ..."

5. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with ...by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1902)
"The genus Capparis includes about 120 species inhabiting the warmer parts of Europe and Asia, of which 11 are enumerated as being natives of Africa, ..."

6. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"The bark is sold in commerce as cinnamon, and is the best cinnamon bark produced in the Philippines by a wild species. Family CAPPARIDACEAE Genus CAPPARIS ..."

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