Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Ocimum

1. Noun. Basil.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ocimum

Literary usage of Genus Ocimum

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

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1812)
"But as this author has remarked that the genus OCIMUM requires altogether to undergo a re-examination, both to decide which of the ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"CXV (1775), based only on the enumeration of 3 species of the genus Ocimum without indication of characters. Art. 39. The date of a name or of a combination ..."

3. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"The genus Ocimum, as now limited, is distinguished from others of the tribe by the decurrent margins of the upper tooth of the calyx, the flat lower lip of ..."

4. The Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society by British Homoeopathic Society (1896)
"The best known plant of the genus ocimum was the fragrant basil, which Boccaccio tells us the frail but lovely Isabella planted above the head of her ..."

5. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1906)
"The genus Ocimum includes about 60 species, natives of the warm regions of both hemispheres. Of these 43 are found in Tropical Africa, and 8 or 10 in South ..."

6. 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)
"... against the Caliph of Bagdad and the Bulgarians; completed the conquest of Bulgaria, 1018. Basil (bä'sll), herb or shrub of the genus Ocimum and family ..."

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