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Definition of Genus Matthiola
1. Noun. Genus of Old World plants grown as ornamentals.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, Family Brassicaceae, Family Cruciferae, Mustard Family
Member holonyms: Gillyflower, Stock, Brompton Stock, Matthiola Incana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Matthiola
Literary usage of Genus Matthiola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"Turning now to the genus Matthiola. The pollen of one kind of stock sometimes
affects the colour of the seeds of another kind, used as the mother-plant I ..."
2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1887)
"Turning now to the genus Matthiola. The pollen of one kind of stock sometimes
affects the colour of the seeds of another kind, used as the mother-plant. ..."
3. Botanical names for English readers by Randal Hibbert Alcock (1876)
"He freely attacks the opinions of both older and contemporaneous writers, perhaps
especially Fuchs. The genus Matthiola is named in honour of him. ..."
4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1866)
"On a Certain Phenomenon of Hybridism in the genus Matthiola." Mr. B. CLARKE,
London.—" On the Floral Envelopes ..."
5. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Gillyflower (jll'1ï-flow-èr), popular name for the cruciferous plants of the
genus Matthiola, called also by the general name of stock or stock gillyflower; ..."
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