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Definition of Genus Cicer

1. Noun. Chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cicer

Literary usage of Genus Cicer

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

1. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"... and sometimes in the genus Cicer ; but the species of these ill-defined groups all belong to the Mediterranean basin or to Western Asia. ..."

2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... genus Cicer, of the natural order Leguminosa?, having pinnate leaves, solitary axillary stalked flowers, and two-seeded pods, inflated like bladders. ..."

3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"For the characters and propertiesof the genus Cicer, see CICER. (Loudon's Cyclopaedia of Plant»; Don, Miller's Dictionary ; Hooker's British Flora ..."

4. Food-grains of India by Arthur Herbert Church (1886)
"The genus Cicer belongs to the tribe Vicieae, and the sub-order Papilionaceae. The chick-pea or common gram is largely cultivated in the Northern Provinces ..."

5. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1862)
"An examination of the seed shows it to be a vetch—natural order Vicia, genus Cicer. Hence it is an annual herb. The species to which these seeds belong is ..."

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