Definition of Genus Dactylis

1. Noun. A monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dactylis

genus Cyperus
genus Cyphomandra
genus Cypraea
genus Cyprinus
genus Cypripedium
genus Cyrilla
genus Cyrtomium
genus Cystophora
genus Cystopteris
genus Cytisus
genus Daboecia
genus Dacelo
genus Dacrycarpus
genus Dacrydium
genus Dacrymyces
genus Dactylis (current term)
genus Dactyloctenium
genus Dactylopius
genus Dactylopterus
genus Dactylorhiza
genus Dahlia
genus Dalbergia
genus Dalea
genus Dama
genus Damaliscus
genus Danaea
genus Danaus
genus Daphne
genus Daphnia
genus Darlingtonia

Literary usage of Genus Dactylis

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

1. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1852)
"... and we fbd л alluded to ЪУ And this in twenty-seven years ! genus Dactylis, and we find it alluded to by Foster under the appellation of Dactylis ..."

2. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"genus Dactylis. Panicle of dense clusters of spikelets all arranged on one side : spikelets with three to five flowers : empty glumes with a short rigid ..."

3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"... and of the French Naturalists; but he correctly refers it to the genus Dactylis, and suggests that it may probably be the Dactylis ..."

4. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"genus Dactylis. Panicle of dense clusters of spikelets all arranged on one side: spikelets with three to five flowers : empty glumes with a short rigid ..."

5. The Annual Report by Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (1858)
"GENUS—DACTYLIS, Low. COCK'S FOOT-GRASS. Glumes two, unequal, narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the spikelet, the larger keeled; ..."

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