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Definition of Genus Eupatorium
1. Noun. Large genus of chiefly tropical herbs having heads of white or purplish flowers.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Eupatorium Maculatum, Joe-pye Weed, Spotted Joe-pye Weed, Agueweed, Boneset, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Thoroughwort, Eupatorium Purpureum, Joe-pye Weed, Marsh Milkweed, Purple Boneset, Trumpet Weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Eupatorium
Literary usage of Genus Eupatorium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"... proposed to separate this aquatic tick- sovd from the genus Eupatorium and to
make it the type of a new genus which he denominated BIDENS. ..."
2. Agricultural Botany: An Enumeration and Description of Useful Plants and by William Darlington (1847)
"... specially typified by the genus Eupatorium. two-edged т?™,. E»(tre,having a
continuous even margin; .without incision, notch, or tooth. Envelope. ..."
3. Memoirs by Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Gray Herbarium (1917)
"... between Brickellia with its normally 10-ribbed achenes and the great and
already unwieldy genus Eupatorium, in which the achenes are normally 5-angled. ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... Kunth (1821) and the latter of a subdivision of the genus Eupatorium Stockh.
1821, p. 167, t. 3, for the former is merely a synonym of the genus L. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Medical Terminology, Dental Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris (1855)
"... surface of metals ; the mercury being driven off by heat, a thin layer of gold
remains. WATER HEMP. A plant of the genus Eupatorium. WATER IN THE HEAD. ..."
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