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Definition of Genus Carlina
1. Noun. Genus of Mediterranean thistles.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Carline Thistle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Carlina
Literary usage of Genus Carlina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The Carline Thistle forms the genus Carlina, which obtained that name from a
tradition that the root of the Common Carline (C. vul- garit) was shown by an ..."
2. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1826)
"The genus Carlina agrees in its stigma with Xeranthemum, and with Aste\ma of
Brown, in having the rays of its feathery seed-crown united into bundles for a ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1822)
"The large size and spreading of the persistent, coloured upper squama- of the
calyx may be considered .as making a near approach to the genus CARLINA. ..."
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