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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
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Gastrolobium, Poison Bush, Poison Pea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gastrolobium
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 ..."