Definition of Genus Fritillaria

1. Noun. Fritillary.

Exact synonyms: Fritillaria
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Liliaceae, Liliaceae, Lily Family
Member holonyms: Checkered Lily, Fritillary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fritillaria

genus Fossa
genus Fothergilla
genus Fouquieria
genus Fragaria
genus Francisella
genus Francoa
genus Frankliniella
genus Frasera
genus Fratercula
genus Fraxinus
genus Freesia
genus Fregata
genus Fremontia
genus Fremontodendron
genus Fringilla
genus Fritillaria (current term)
genus Froelichia
genus Fuchsia
genus Fucus
genus Fulica
genus Fulmarus
genus Fumaria
genus Fundulus
genus Fungia
genus Funka
genus Furnarius
genus Fusanus
genus Fusarium
genus Fuscoboletinus
genus Gadus

Literary usage of Genus Fritillaria

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

1. Notes on Lilies and Their Culture by Alexander Wallace (1879)
"This type of structure is scarcely varied through about half the genus Fritillaria, and it is this type that is distinguished in the synopsis of the genus ..."

2. Gardening for Ladies: And Companion to the Flower-garden by Loudon (Jane), Andrew Jackson Downing (1843)
"A very showy bulbous-rooted plant, formerly included in the genus Fritillaria; but it has lately been placed in another genus. It is quite hardy, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... in holany, a plant of the genus Fritillaria, of the lily family, found in the North Temperate and Arctic zones. The plants are herbaceous, ..."

4. The Ladies' Companion to the Flower-garden: Being an Alphabetical by Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"It is increased by cuttings. CROWN IMPERIAL.—A very showy bulbous-rooted plant, formerly included in the genus Fritillaria ; but it has lately been placed ..."

5. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of by Arthur Henfrey, Thomas Henry Huxley (1853)
"In the genus Fritillaria occur species with left- and with right-winding leaves. To the former belong, for example, F. imperialis, L.; F. Meleagris, L., ..."

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