Definition of Genus Gleditsia

1. Noun. Deciduous trees: honey locusts.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gleditsia

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
genus Glechoma
genus Gleditsia (current term)
genus Gleichenia
genus Gliricidia
genus Glis
genus Globicephala
genus Globigerina
genus Gloriosa
genus Glossina
genus Glossodia
genus Glossopsitta
genus Gloxinia
genus Glyceria
genus Glycine
genus Glycyrrhiza
genus Gnaphalium

Literary usage of Genus Gleditsia

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

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus GLEDITSIA, Linn. The genus Gleditsia has ten species or more, three of which are native to the eastern half of the United States. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"... locust belongs to the genus Gleditsia, sometimes spelled Gleditschia since it was named by Linnaeus in 1753 in honor of JT Gleditsch, a german botanist. ..."

3. Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits by Harriet Louise Keeler (1900)
"The genus Gleditsia is found in America, Africa, and Asia but not at present in Europe, although in the tertiary period it existed there. YELLOW-WOOD. ..."

4. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Belonging to the same family and sharing the name locust with the Robinia, though differing widely from it, is the genus Gleditsia or ..."

5. Dendrologie: Bäume, Sträucher und Halbsträucher, welche in Mittel- und Nord by Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (1869)
"... und ein Theil seiner Nachfolger dieses genus Gleditsia, bis Willdenow die richtige Schreibart in der ersten Auflage seiner Berliner ..."

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