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Definition of Genus Epacris
1. Noun. Type genus of the Epacridaceae: Australian heath.
Group relationships: Epacridaceae, Epacris Family, Family Epacridaceae
Member holonyms: Epacris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Epacris
Literary usage of Genus Epacris
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 (1897)
"genus Epacris EPACRIS (Greek, cpi, upon, and akris, tlie summit of a mountain).
A genus of about twenty-six species of erect, greenhouse shrubs, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"LHB The genus Epacris (though perhaps not as well known as the Ericas, with which
they are usually grown, requiring the same culture) furnishes the cool ..."
3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"It is almost needless to add, that the various species of this beautiful
genus (Epacris) contribute- more (both by the elegance and simplicity of their ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"The genus Epacris, with its allied genera, seems to be almost as numerous, and
to hold the same rank in New Holland, as the Heaths do at the Cape. ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"... of which some (of the genus Epacris) now take their place with heaths among
the favorite ornaments of our green-houses. ..."
6. The British Florist: Or, Lady's Journal of Horticulture (1846)
"The general aspect of the plant is not strikingly dissimilar from many species
of the kindred genus Epacris; ..."
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