Definition of Genus Erythrina

1. Noun. Genus of attractive tropical shrubs or trees with usually red flowers.

Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Coral Tree, Erythrina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Erythrina

genus Eriobotrya
genus Eriocaulon
genus Eriodictyon
genus Eriogonum
genus Eriophorum
genus Eriophyllum
genus Eriosoma
genus Erithacus
genus Erodium
genus Erolia
genus Eruca
genus Erwinia
genus Eryngium
genus Erysimum
genus Erysiphe
genus Erythrina (current term)
genus Erythrocebus
genus Erythronium
genus Erythroxylon
genus Erythroxylum
genus Escherichia
genus Eschrichtius
genus Eschscholtzia
genus Esox
genus Estrilda
genus Etropus
genus Euarctos
genus Eucalyptus
genus Eucarya
genus Eucinostomus

Literary usage of Genus Erythrina

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

1. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"NOTE 53 (page 141) ON THE genus Erythrina We have in E. indica a widely distributed littoral species, ranging from India through Malaya to eastern Australia ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... quoted as a synonym of Microp- tion; the species in question, when placed in the genus Erythrina, must be called Erythrina Poeppigiana OF Cook in [7. ..."

3. The Floral Magazine: Comprising Figures and Descriptions of Popular Garden by Thomas Moore, Walter Hood Fitch (1873)
"... The genus Erythrina has been well known for a long time as containing some very valuable plants, with bold leaves and very handsome flowers, ..."

4. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1825)
"It is perhaps a new species of the genus erythrina of Gronovius. It has large silvery scales, edged with green. This fish is extremely voracious, ..."

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