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Definition of Genus Ficus
1. Noun. Large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Moraceae, Moraceae, Mulberry Family
Member holonyms: Fig Tree, Ficus Aurea, Florida Strangler Fig, Golden Fig, Strangler Fig, Wild Fig, Ficus Sycomorus, Mulberry Fig, Sycamore, Sycamore Fig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ficus
Literary usage of Genus Ficus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Belonging to, resembling, or having an arrangement of parts as in, the genus Ficus.
... or resembling, the genus Ficus. P. allí anee. ..."
2. The Intellectual Observer (1867)
"The genus Ficus is especially rich in many varied forms of useful ... Lindley says
the genus Ficus is one of those which travellers describe as most ..."
3. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"The genus Ficus in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia, vol. 1, No. 2, Atlantic.
Johnsonia, vol. 1, No. 3, 8 pp., 6 pis. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The Moraceae are distinctly tropical and warm temperate types and are most abundant
in the oriental tropics, although the dominant genus Ficus is widespread ..."
5. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"On comparison with the genus Ficus it is found to closely resemble a number of
... Placed in the genus Ficus, where these fossil forms properly belong, ..."
6. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"In most cases the cystoliths occur singly ; more rarely several of them are found
in the same cell ; within the limits of the same genus (Ficus) they may ..."
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