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Definition of Genus Cocculus
1. Noun. Climbing plants or shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Menispermaceae, Menispermaceae, Moonseed Family
Member holonyms: Carolina Moonseed, Cocculus Carolinus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cocculus
Literary usage of Genus Cocculus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"... the Menispermum Cocculus of Linnaeus, the Cocculus tuberosus of De Candolle,
or the Cocculus indicus of commerce, is removed from the genus Cocculus as ..."
2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... proposed by Miers, has been referred by Drs. Hooker and Thomson to the genus
Cocculus, from which it differs only in the elongated drupe, ..."
3. Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson (1855)
"The first important step in advance was made by Wight and Arnott, who in 1832
divided the Indian species of the genus Cocculus into sections according to ..."