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Definition of Genus Dalea

1. Noun. Indigo bush.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dalea

Literary usage of Genus Dalea

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The long sound of a makes the word indistinguishable from the leguminous genus Dalea, named after Dale. In Germany Dahlias are still commonly called ..."

2. Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1823)
"... genus Dalea has been confounded with Psoralea, from which it (lifters essentially in its monadelphous stamens, and in the tube of these stamens bearing ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"On less rugged portions of these hot unshaded hills is where we Look for and find various species of an interesting genus (Dalea) of peculiar south-western ..."

4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"... honor of a German botanist, who resided many years in St. Petersburg, in consequence of the genus dalea having been previously established by Thunberg. ..."

5. Conversations on Nature and Art (1839)
"pronunciation confusing these plants with the papilionaceous genus Dalea, it also is radically wrong, for the flower is named after Andrew Dahl, ..."

6. California Desert Trails by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1919)
"For many a year the smoke-tree and its relatives were known to all the world as of the genus Dalea. To-day the puzzled amateur finds that ..."

7. Instructions in gardening for ladies by Loudon (1840)
"... botanist named Georgi, who resided many years in St. Petersburg, in. consequence of the genus Dalea having been previously established by Thunberg. ..."

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