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Definition of Genus Inula
1. Noun. Genus of Old World herbs or subshrubs: elecampane.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Inula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Inula
Literary usage of Genus Inula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1866)
"I have great pleasure in supplementing these remarks by some observations on the
genus Inula ... The extensive genus Inula forms three subgenera, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"... descriptions for a number of plants, new Asters so-called then and long
afterward, which made a considerable part of the Linnean genus Inula. ..."
3. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"The genus INULA, besides thirty foreign species, some of which are cultivated by
our gardeners, contains other three native plants : the dysenterica, ..."
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