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Definition of Genus Lycium

1. Noun. Deciduous and evergreen shrubs often spiny; cosmopolitan in temperate and subtropical regions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lycium

Literary usage of Genus Lycium

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

1. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Taylor and Francis, William Jardine (1854)
"On the genus Lycium. By JOHN MIERS, Esq., FRS, FLS &c. [Continued from p. 20. ... genus Lycium ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"The genus Lycium differs from all true Solanacea in the very imbricated aestivation of its corolla, as frequently pointed out, but this character has not ..."

3. Dictionary of Natural History Terms with Their Derivations: Including the by David Hudson Mac Nicoll (1863)
"the genus Lycium, and n^ve-ini, near allied to; a genus of Solanaceae. ... the genus Lycium and 5^i;, like ; a genus of ..."

4. The Natural History Review: A Quarterly Journal of Biological Science by Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Cork Scientific and Literary Society, Cuvierian Society of Cork, Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, Literary and Scientific Instit (1854)
"(J. Miers) On the genus Lycium (continued from p. 141); (Professor Sedgwick) Rejoinder to Professor Milne Edwards, and Mr. Bowerbank. ..."

5. Illustrations of South American Plants by John Miers (1857)
"The genus Lycium differs from all true Solanacea in the very imbricated aestivation of its corolla, as frequently pointed out, but this character has not ..."

6. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The spores are generally generic name is expressive of its close more or less olivaceous, but occasionally affinity to the genus Lycium. ..."

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