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Definition of Genus Geranium
1. Noun. Genus of mostly North American geraniums: cranesbills.
Group relationships: Family Geraniaceae, Geraniaceae, Geranium Family
Member holonyms: Crane's Bill, Cranesbill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Geranium
Literary usage of Genus Geranium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The name, as a scientific appellation, has a much more restricted application
than when taken in its popular sense. Formerly the genus Geranium was almost ..."
2. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Plants of the genus geranium are herbs with perennial, biennial, or annual roots;
stems swollen at the joints; leaves usually rounded and palmately ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"In his form, as depicted in "Species Plantarum," 1753, Linnaeus !841. described the
few species which he knew (about twenty-five) under the genus Geranium. ..."
4. Journal of Materia Medica (1869)
"The genus Erodium, and the Pelargonium were formerly grouped in rhe genus Geranium.
The Erodium. having but five stamens, will be found in order ..."
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