Definition of Genus Glaux

1. Noun. Sea milkwort.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Glaux

genus Gerbillus
genus Gerea
genus Gerres
genus Gerrhonotus
genus Gerris
genus Gesneria
genus Geum
genus Giardia
genus Ginglymostoma
genus Ginkgo
genus Giraffa
genus Gladiolus
genus Glareola
genus Glaucium
genus Glaucomys
genus Glaux (current term)
genus Glechoma
genus Gleditsia
genus Gleichenia
genus Gliricidia
genus Glis
genus Globicephala
genus Globigerina
genus Gloriosa
genus Glossina
genus Glossodia
genus Glossopsitta
genus Gloxinia
genus Glyceria
genus Glycine

Literary usage of Genus Glaux

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

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Inhabits Europe and Asia ; Africa ? N. America ? vicinity of Calcutta. Genus GLAUX, Blyth. Gl. javanica (?), Jerdon's III. Ind. Orn. pl. 30). SIN. ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"In the genus Glaux only one floral envelope is developed. It has the appearance of a perianth, and resembles that of Polygo- ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"There is one genus (Glaux) in which the corolla is entirely wanting. The largest genus is the type of the family (Primula), ..."

4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... it is suppressed in the genus Glaux: the stamens (Fig. 454 a) are generally adnate to the tube of the corolla and are opposite to its lobes ..."

5. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"A British plant of the genus Glaux, the G. marítima, called also sea-milkwort. [See GLAUX.] BLACK'-SNAKE, n. [add.] The black- snake of Jamaica is the ..."

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