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Definition of Genus Coptis
1. Noun. Small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers.
Exact synonyms: Coptis
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Coptis Groenlandica, Coptis Trifolia Groenlandica, Golden Thread, Goldthread
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Coptis Groenlandica, Coptis Trifolia Groenlandica, Golden Thread, Goldthread
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Coptis
Literary usage of Genus Coptis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"... t The genus Coptis is a small family; the only species except those of America
are found in Asia. ..."
2. Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine: A Preliminary Catalogue of the Plants by Edward Lothrop Rand, John Howard Redfield (1894)
"... that the plant showed well marked generic differences, and assigned it to a
new genus, Coptis. Our plant therefore bears the binomial, Coptis trifolia ..."
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