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Definition of Genus Mammillaria
1. Noun. Large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface.
Group relationships: Cactaceae, Cactus Family, Family Cactaceae
Member holonyms: Mammillaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mammillaria
Literary usage of Genus Mammillaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"Mackie, and, like the preceding species, has a considerable affinity with the
genus Mammillaria; but is a much more neatly made and elegant species; ..."
2. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1871)
"... name of Turk's Cap Cactus, is derived from the resemblance to a Turk's Cap of
the red coloured cylindrical flowering portion. The genus Mammillaria ..."
3. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1885)
"The genus Mammillaria is represented by thirty-seven species and varieties; all
nice and compact plants, usually with short spines. ..."
4. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1839)
"... but Mr. Beaton asserts that all the sections of the genus Mammillaria have
not only a woody axis, ..."
5. Home Gardening: A Manual for the Amateur by William D. Drury (1898)
"The genus Mammillaria ought certainly to be represented. One curious though
distinct kind is M. bicolor, whose fine white spines are such a feature. ..."
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