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Definition of Genus Lupinus
1. Noun. Herbs or shrubs: lupin.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Lupin, Lupine, Lupinus Arboreus, Tree Lupine, Indian Beet, Lupinus Perennis, Old-maid's Bonnet, Sundial Lupine, Wild Lupine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lupinus
Literary usage of Genus Lupinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"Lupins (genus Lupinus). 24. The genus Lupinus includes a large number of species
of herbaceous and half shrubby plants many of which are grown in gardens ..."
2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"Lupins (genus Lupinus). 24. The genus Lupinus includes a large number of species
of herbaceous and half shrubby plants many of which are grown in gardens ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"1917. 16 STURGIS, WC, Notes on new or rare Myxomycetes. Mycologia 9:323-332. pis.
14, 15- 1917- " SMITH, CHARLES PIPER, Studies in the genus Lupinus. II. ..."
4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"genus Lupinus LUPINUS (Latin, lupus, a wolf or destroyer ; these plants being
supposed to be so ravenous that they exhausted the soil). ..."
5. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1920)
"Any plant of the genus Lupinus. if-pin-in. A glucosid from various species of
lupinus. lu-pin-(/-sis. A disease of cattle due to eating poi- ..."
6. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1885)
"... with the exception of A. Canadensis, which has yellowish flowers. The genus
Lupinus is also very numerous and most of the species are very ornamental; ..."
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