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Definition of Genus Centunculus
1. Noun. A dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae.
Exact synonyms: Centunculus
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Bastard Pimpernel, Chaffweed, False Pimpernel
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae
Member holonyms: Bastard Pimpernel, Chaffweed, False Pimpernel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Centunculus
Literary usage of Genus Centunculus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"We must remember that the genus Centunculus was established by Dillenius himself
in 1717; the following year he mentioned the plant in his Catalogus ..."
2. An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany by James Edward Smith (1814)
"... for its capsula circum- scissa, a membranous capsule, separating by a complete
circular fissure into two parts, as in the next genus, Centunculus, t. ..."
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