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Definition of Genus Fagus
1. Noun. Beeches.
Generic synonyms: Hamamelid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Beech Family, Fagaceae, Family Fagaceae
Member holonyms: Beech, Beech Tree, Common Beech, European Beech, Fagus Sylvatica, Copper Beech, Fagus Purpurea, Fagus Sylvatica Atropunicea, Fagus Sylvatica Purpurea, Purple Beech, American Beech, Fagus Americana, Fagus Grandifolia, Red Beech, White Beech, Fagus Pendula, Fagus Sylvatica Pendula, Weeping Beech, Japanese Beech
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fagus
Literary usage of Genus Fagus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"... or more species known to belong to this genus. Fagus is from phago, to eat,
and refers to the nut. The name Ironwood has been applied to Blue Beech ..."
2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... makes the following observations on this genus : —' The introduction into the
genus Fagus of three or four species which had not been described modifies ..."
3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"... the genus Fagus shows considerable diversity in the structure of the wood,
and the differences agree with the splitting of the genus into two genera, ..."
4. Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories by Leo Lesquereux (1874)
"The relation of this leaf to the genus Fagus is undeniable. In comparing it with
some leaves of Fagus sylvatica, L., of Europe, it is scarcely possible to ..."
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