Definition of Genus Eriogonum

1. Noun. North American herbs of the buckwheat family.

Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Buckwheat Family, Family Polygonaceae, Polygonaceae
Member holonyms: Eriogonum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Eriogonum

genus Equus
genus Eragrostis
genus Eranthis
genus Ercilla
genus Erechtites
genus Erethizon
genus Eretmochelys
genus Erianthus
genus Erica
genus Erigeron
genus Erignathus
genus Erinaceus
genus Eriobotrya
genus Eriocaulon
genus Eriodictyon
genus Eriogonum (current term)
genus Eriophorum
genus Eriophyllum
genus Eriosoma
genus Erithacus
genus Erodium
genus Erolia
genus Eruca
genus Erwinia
genus Eryngium
genus Erysimum
genus Erysiphe
genus Erythrina
genus Erythrocebus
genus Erythronium

Literary usage of Genus Eriogonum

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

1. A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City by Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley (1861)
"By the side of the genus Eriogonum, so rich in species, are to be found in the same region five or six other genera, still more curious in a scientific ..."

2. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nikolaus Triibner (1859)
"Observations on the genus Eriogonum, &c , concluded. Character of a New Genus, and Descriptions of three New Species upon which it is formed; discovered in ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The second paper was by Dr. John K. Small, ' On the genus Eriogonum North of Mexico,' a genus founded by Michaux upon a single species in 1803, ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1887)
"... of the bunch or clump from which it was taken. One of these bunches contains sometimes as many as twenty-five flowers. The genus Eriogonum, of the order ..."

5. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences by Davenport Academy of Sciences (1883)
"Thus, while agreeing in its general habit with the closely allied and extensive genus Eriogonum ("and with fully one-fourth as many species), ..."

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