Definition of Genus Dalbergia

1. Noun. Large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dalbergia

genus Cyrtomium
genus Cystophora
genus Cystopteris
genus Cytisus
genus Daboecia
genus Dacelo
genus Dacrycarpus
genus Dacrydium
genus Dacrymyces
genus Dactylis
genus Dactyloctenium
genus Dactylopius
genus Dactylopterus
genus Dactylorhiza
genus Dahlia
genus Dalbergia (current term)
genus Dalea
genus Dama
genus Damaliscus
genus Danaea
genus Danaus
genus Daphne
genus Daphnia
genus Darlingtonia
genus Darmera
genus Dasyatis
genus Dasyprocta
genus Dasypus
genus Dasyurus
genus Datura

Literary usage of Genus Dalbergia

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

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"One of the genus Dalbergia, is known in Tenasserim as the Chisel-Handle Tree. ... There is another large timber tree of the genus Dalbergia found throughout ..."

2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"... is clearly distinct from related forms and is identical in its characters with the fossil leguminous leaflets usually referred to the genus Dalbergia. ..."

3. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Genus DALBERGIA Linne, f. [Suppl., 1781, p. ... with the fossil leguminous leaflets usually referred to the genus Dalbergia. ..."

4. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"... and therefore the genus Dalbergia may stand in a broad sense as indicative of the true botanical affinity of the fossil and in this connection it is ..."

5. The Indian Forester (1902)
"WHEN examining the material of the genus Dalbergia at Kew in 1899, the writer found, at the end of the genus, a single undetermined fruit, with which is ..."

6. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray, James Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Robert Jameson, Whitelaw Ainslie, William Rhind, William Wallace, Clarence Dalrymple (1832)
"Some of the finest leguminose timber-trees are perhaps to be found in the genus Dalbergia. Roxburgh describes D. latifolia as one of the largest ..."

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