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Definition of Genus Lens

1. Noun. Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lens

Literary usage of Genus Lens

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The seeds keep better iu the pods than after being threshed out. Some of the varieties are the Puy Green, Small Winter and Small March. The genus Lens is ..."

2. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"... now in a distinct genus Lens, and sometimes in the genus Cicer ; but the species of these ill-defined groups all belong to the Mediterranean basin or to ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"... an important forage plant of the southern States (see Fig. 122). The European genus Lens furnishes the lentil, while Cicer is the gram or chick pea. ..."

4. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus Lens,* Adans. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 525 ; Baill., Hist. Pl., ii, p. 238. Species 3 or more, natives of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor. 76. ..."

5. A Guide to Effective Management of Germplasm Collections by Jan Engels, L Visser (2003)
"Mapping the geographical distribution of genetic variation in the genus Lens for the enhanced conservation of plant genetic diversity. ..."

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