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Definition of Genus Lythrum
1. Noun. Loosestrife.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Lythraceae, Loosestrife Family, Lythraceae
Member holonyms: Loosestrife, Lythrum Salicaria, Purple Loosestrife, Spiked Loosestrife, Grass Poly, Hyssop Loosestrife, Lythrum Hyssopifolia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lythrum
Literary usage of Genus Lythrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The plants composing the genus Cuphea were separated from those forming the genus
Lythrum, chiefly because the former have a tubular calyx and unequal ..."
2. Dictionary of Natural History Terms with Their Derivations: Including the by David Hudson Mac Nicoll (1863)
"the family of which the beautiful genus Lythrum is the type. Ly'thrum (Bot.)
Xi/fy>«v, black blood; alluding to the colour of the ..."
3. Scientific Lectures by John Lubbock (1890)
"The genus Lythrum (Fig. 33) affords a still more complex case, for here we have
three sets of flowers. The stamens are in two groups; in some plants, ..."
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