Definition of Genus Gastrolobium

1. Noun. Genus of Australian evergreen shrubs poisonous to livestock: poison bush.

Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Gastrolobium, Poison Bush, Poison Pea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gastrolobium

genus Galictis
genus Galium
genus Galleria
genus Gallinago
genus Gallinula
genus Gallirallus
genus Gallus
genus Gambelia
genus Gambusia
genus Garcinia
genus Gardenia
genus Garrulus
genus Gasterophilus
genus Gastroboletus
genus Gastrocybe
genus Gastrolobium (current term)
genus Gastrophryne
genus Gaultheria
genus Gavia
genus Gavialis
genus Gaylussacia
genus Gazania
genus Gazella
genus Geastrum
genus Gelechia
genus Gelsemium
genus Gempylus
genus Genetta
genus Genipa
genus Genista

Literary usage of Genus Gastrolobium

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

1. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... Australian genus Gastrolobium, but the determination is very doubtful ; and the same remark applies to those described as ..."

2. New Lands: Their Resources and Prospective Advantages by Hugh Robert Mill (1900)
"They are lands infested by plants of the genus Gastrolobium, poisonous to livestock, and peculiarly deadly to sheep. They are let on a thirty years' lease ..."

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