Definition of Genus Grevillea

1. Noun. Large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Grevillea

genus Gobiesox
genus Gobio
genus Gomphotherium
genus Gomphrena
genus Goniopteris
genus Gonorhynchus
genus Goodyera
genus Gopherus
genus Gorgonocephalus
genus Gorilla
genus Gossypium
genus Gracula
genus Grammatophyllum
genus Grampus
genus Graptophyllum
genus Grevillea (current term)
genus Grewia
genus Grias
genus Grindelia
genus Griselinia
genus Grison
genus Groenlandia
genus Grus
genus Guaiacum
genus Guevina
genus Gulo
genus Gutierrezia
genus Gymnadenia
genus Gymnadeniopsis
genus Gymnelis

Literary usage of Genus Grevillea

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

1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... to form a section, of the large genus Grevillea. It contains about eight species, all from South-west Australia; and Is distinguished chiefly by its ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... Robert K. Greville of Edinburgh was born on the 14th Dec., 1794, he was therefore only just fourteen years old when the genus Grevillea was established. ..."

3. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales: By Various Hands...together with by Barron Field (1825)
"... remain to be added; and of any individual genus, Grevillea has received the most considerable accession of unpublished species, belonging chiefly to Mr. ..."

4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1840)
"This would seem to be one of the most attractive species of the singular genus Grevillea. " Mr. Brown considers this plant scarcely specifically distinct ..."

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