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Definition of Genus Garcinia
1. Noun. Evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Clusiaceae, Family Clusiaceae, Family Guttiferae, Guttiferae, St John's Wort Family
Member holonyms: Garcinia Mangostana, Mangosteen, Mangosteen Tree, Gamboge Tree, Garcinia Cambogia, Garcinia Gummi-gutta, Garcinia Hanburyi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Garcinia
Literary usage of Genus Garcinia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1840)
"Conceiving the genus Garcinia too complex, I there proposed subdividing it.
The following extract will explain the views I then entertained :— *« In my ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1851)
"... a well characterised section at least of the genus Garcinia consists of species
which have " sessile anthers, flattened above, ..."
3. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"It is move the plant from the genus Garcinia, unfortunate that we do not know
the female The structure of the stamens is quite pecu- flowers in either ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1851)
"... yet they are sufficient to show that the plant presents the characters of
Wight's gamboge-bearing section of the genus Garcinia; but that it is not any ..."
5. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1827)
"If the genus Garcinia thus constituted be good, as, even including the Cambogia
of Linnaeus, it contains only thirteen species, ..."
6. The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia by Brazil (1876)
"... in the genus Platonia there is the bacuri, one of the most apreciated fruits,
and in the genus Garcinia, sundry species of ..."
7. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"... and is found on various sheets representing several other species of the genus.
Garcinia venulosa was previously erroneously interpreted by me, ..."
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