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Definition of Genus Lavatera
1. Noun. Widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Malvaceae, Mallow Family, Malvaceae
Member holonyms: Lavatera Arborea, Tree Mallow, Velvet-leaf, Velvetleaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lavatera
Literary usage of Genus Lavatera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"Flowers on peduncles, large, showy. — The only genus containing hardy species
is //ibiscus. The genus Lavatera contains some species which have an ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The genus Lavatera contains some species which have an arborescent appearance,
but which are in fact only ..."
3. Wild flowers worth notice by Phebe Lankester (1879)
"LAVATERA ARE ORE A. THE genus Lavatera was named in honour of Lavater (a physician
in Zurich, not the celebrated physiognomist of that name), and belongs to ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"The genus Lavatera contains some species which have an arborescent appearance,
but which are in fact only ..."
5. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The only genus containing hardy species is Hibiscus. The genus Lavatera contains
some species which have an arborescent appearance, but which are in fact ..."
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