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Definition of Genus Glaucium

1. Noun. Herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia: horned poppy.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Glaucium

Literary usage of Genus Glaucium

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

1. Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-side by Anne Pratt (1850)
"... have the sea-green bloom so often found on sea-side vegetation, and the botanic name of the genus, Glaucium, originated in the Greek word for sea-green. ..."

2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1798)
"The other Linnaean species of Chelidonium being established as a genus (Glaucium), the present is the only one that remains. It is remarkable for the orange ..."

3. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1865)
"Jussieu, and Lamarck unite the genus Glaucium with Chelidonium; Tournefort, Haller, and Cranz would have them separated. Recent botanists have again ..."

4. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith by James Edward Smith, Pleasance Reeve Smith (1832)
"names of the genus Glaucium, I confess I have been tempted to follow Gaertner, in preferring precision, elegance, and truth, to barbarism, confusion, ..."

5. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith by James Edward Smith, Pleasance Reeve Smith (1832)
"names of the genus Glaucium, I confess I have been tempted to follow Gartner, in preferring precision, elegance, and truth, to barbarism, confusion, ..."

6. The Weekly Visitor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1835)
"The genus glaucium, of which the yellow-horned poppy forms a representative, may be distinguished from the chelidonium, or celandine, by its two- celled ..."

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