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Definition of Genus Meconopsis
1. Noun. Herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, Poppy Family
Member holonyms: Blue Poppy, Meconopsis Betonicifolia, Meconopsis Cambrica, Welsh Poppy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Meconopsis
Literary usage of Genus Meconopsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue by Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, London (1845)
"An Account of the genus Meconopsis, with notes on their cultivation and propagation
by EHM Cox. 24 plates, cr. 4to., blue buckram. 1934, £i. ..."
2. Tibet and the Tibetans by Graham Sandberg (1906)
"... 1 The self-restraint in growth exhibited by Tibetan plants is strikingly
exemplified in the genus Meconopsis, which is all the more remarkable because ..."
3. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1828)
"The genus Meconopsis was established prior to the Stylophorum of Nuttall, so that
the former must be adopted. Besides, there is a genus ..."
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