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Definition of Genus Gaylussacia
1. Noun. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs of North America: black huckleberries.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Ericaceae, Family Ericaceae, Heath Family
Member holonyms: Huckleberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gaylussacia
Literary usage of Genus Gaylussacia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"Mountain Holly, page 56. Cornel, alternate leaves, page 127. Groundsel Tree, page
154. genus Gaylussacia (Huckleberries and ..."
2. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"Engelhardt has described (i) a form from Potosi which he refers to the allied
genus Gaylussacia but which may represent an allied species of Vaccinium. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"HUCKLEBERRY, in botany, the popular name in the northeastern United States of
the genus Gaylussacia, small branching shrubs resembling in habit the English ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Not only is this true of the family, but hereabouts of the genus Gaylussacia, or
the huckleberries proper, alone. I do not know of a spot where any shrub ..."
5. The Life of Sir Charles J.F. Bunbury, Bart. by Charles James Fox Bunbury, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1906)
"... the Organ mountains they are of the sub-genus (Gaylussacia of Humboldt), which
belongs specially to South America, and of which there is a species even ..."
6. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"... or Huckleberry It seems not quite settled where the name huckleberry originated
as applied to a species of bush fruits of the genus Gaylussacia. ..."
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