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Definition of Genus Eleusine
1. Noun. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Eleusine Indica, Goose Grass, Wire Grass, Yard Grass, Yardgrass, African Millet, Coracan, Corakan, Eleusine Coracana, Finger Millet, Kurakkan, Ragee, Ragi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Eleusine
Literary usage of Genus Eleusine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"A common name for the genus Eleusine. It is also known as Crab Grass. See Eleusine;
Yarrow. See Achillea millefolium. Yaupon. ..."
2. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"In the first place, the species of the genus Eleusine are more numerous in the
south of Asia than in other tropical regions. Besides the cultivated plant, ..."
3. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1860)
"... refer to 45, and see whether the spikes are digitate and the spikelets in two
rows. If they are, refer it to the genus Eleusine. ..."
4. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1887)
"If the latter, refer to 45, and see whether the spikes are digitate and the
spikelets in two rows. If they are, refer it to the genus Eleusine. ..."
5. The Grasses of Tennessee; including Cereals and Forage plants: Including by Joseph Buckner Killebrew (1878)
"If the latter, refer to 45, and see whether th*e spikes are digitate and the
spikelets in two rows. If they are, refer it to the genus Eleusine. ..."
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