Definition of Genus Lupinus

1. Noun. Herbs or shrubs: lupin.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lupinus

genus Loranthus
genus Loris
genus Lota
genus Lotus
genus Lovoa
genus Loxia
genus Loxodonta
genus Loxoma
genus Loxostege
genus Lucilia
genus Lufengpithecus
genus Luffa
genus Lumpenus
genus Lunaria
genus Lunda
genus Lupinus (current term)
genus Luscinia
genus Lutjanus
genus Lutra
genus Luvarus
genus Lycaena
genus Lycaeon
genus Lychnis
genus Lycium
genus Lycoperdon
genus Lycopersicon
genus Lycopersicum
genus Lycopodium
genus Lycopus
genus Lycosa

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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