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Definition of Genus Myroxylon

1. Noun. A genus of tropical American trees having pinnate leaves and white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Myroxylon

Literary usage of Genus Myroxylon

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Thesetwo balsams are very similar in all their more important properties, and are both produced by trees of the genus Myroxylon, of the natural order ..."

2. An Illustration of the Genus Cinchona: Comprising Descriptions of All the by Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Jean Laubert, Hipólito Ruiz, Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1821)
"... because the Quinquina at first was known also by the name of Jesuit's Powder, and the genus Myroxylon ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"Several exotic species of Sophora are cultivated in gardens, while the South American genus Myroxylon yields a fine balsam. ..."

4. Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury (1874)
"... at the urgent request of one of us (H.), to procure complete specimens of the Balsam of Tolu tree. ing the genus Myroxylon for the older genus Je Tolu. ..."

5. Odorographia: A Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs Used in the by John Charles Sawer (1892)
"Other balsamic exudations from trees belonging to the genus Myroxylon are noticed by pharmacological writers; but they are not dealt in commercially in ..."

6. A Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Science: A Guide for the Pharmaceutist by Hiram V. Sweringen (1882)
"... was formed upon insufficient grounds; and botanists agree in referring the tolu balsam tree to the genus Myroxylon, or as it was afterwards named ..."

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