Definition of Genus Gardenia

1. Noun. Large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees.

Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Rubiaceae, Madder Family, Rubiaceae
Member holonyms: Gardenia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gardenia

genus Galax
genus Galega
genus Galeocerdo
genus Galeopsis
genus Galeorhinus
genus Galictis
genus Galium
genus Galleria
genus Gallinago
genus Gallinula
genus Gallirallus
genus Gallus
genus Gambelia
genus Gambusia
genus Garcinia
genus Gardenia (current term)
genus Garrulus
genus Gasterophilus
genus Gastroboletus
genus Gastrocybe
genus Gastrolobium
genus Gastrophryne
genus Gaultheria
genus Gavia
genus Gavialis
genus Gaylussacia
genus Gazania
genus Gazella
genus Geastrum
genus Gelechia

Literary usage of Genus Gardenia

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... genus Gardenia GARDENIA (named in honour of Dr. Alexander Garden of Charleston Carolina, a correspondent of Linnaeus'). A genus including about sixty ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Gardenia Ellis, containing about sixty species of shrubs or rarely trees of the eastern hemisphere, is represented by characteristic fruits in the ..."

3. Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature by Howard Atwood Kelly (1914)
"Not one in a thousand knows after whom the genus Gardenia was named, so I quote a letter from Linnaeus to John Ellis,' the botanist (1760), ..."

4. The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia by Brazil (1876)
"... an acid fruit supposed to possess medicinal properties. In the genus Gardenia there are also ..."

5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and we have evidence of the existence of the handsome Asiatic and African genus Gardenia in the Miocene of ..."

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