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Definition of Genus Echinocactus
1. Noun. Globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil.
Group relationships: Cactaceae, Cactus Family, Family Cactaceae
Member holonyms: Barrel Cactus, Echinocactus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Echinocactus
Literary usage of Genus Echinocactus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1922)
"The genus Echinocactus, as treated by Karl Schumann in his monograph ... In that
year Link and Otto* established the genus Echinocactus, describing and ..."
2. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1837)
"The genus Echinocactus, according to Mr. Turpin, holds a situation midway between
... He describes the genus Echinocactus and the species ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The diversity of form exhibited in the genus Echinocactus since the genera
Astrophytum and Lophophora are now included, makes this one of the most ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"... one of the most beautiful of plants, will really belong to the genus Echinocactus,
of which it has all ..."
5. Cactaceœ of Northeastern and Central Mexico Together with a Synopsis of the by William Edwin Safford (1909)
"... but the flower has a scaly tube more like that found in the genus Echinocactus.
The tubercles are arranged spirally and are at length deciduous, ..."
6. American Gardening (1890)
"The genus echinocactus, including the barrel cactuses, is perhaps the most
formidable of all in its defensive armor. Here the spines, or a part of them, ..."
7. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1871)
"... Mexico, Brazil, and Texas; they were formerly included in the genus Echinocactus,
but from the position of the flowers being at the side of the stom, ..."
8. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... and, most of all, the large-flowered Mexican Cactuses of the genus Echinocactus
and Cereus, of which the species known as ..."
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