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Definition of Genus Dicentra
1. Noun. North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Fumariaceae, Fumariaceae, Fumitory Family
Member holonyms: Bleeding Heart, Dicentra Spectabilis, Lyre-flower, Lyreflower, Dicentra Cucullaria, Dutchman's Breeches
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dicentra
Literary usage of Genus Dicentra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"genus Dicentra DICENTRA (Greek, dis, two, and kentron, a spur or goad). A genus
of about a dozen species of hardy herbaceous plants, natives of North ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"The genus Dicentra, of which there are about fourteen species, is represented by
three species in the northern United States, viz. ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"... genus is more especially characterised by its flowers having only one of the
exterior petals saccate or spurred at the base; while the genus Dicentra, ..."
4. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"2 genera, 3 spe- genus Dicentra, D. cucullaria (Dutchman's Breeches); D.
Canadensis (Squirrel-corn, Colic-weed). ..."
5. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"The arrangement of the essential organs in the genus Dicentra is very curious
and interesting. The six stamens are borne in two companies of three each, ..."
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