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Definition of Genus Parrotia
1. Noun. One species: iron tree.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Family Hamamelidaceae, Hamamelidaceae, Witch-hazel Family
Member holonyms: Iron Tree, Iron-tree, Ironwood, Ironwood Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Parrotia
Literary usage of Genus Parrotia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... is represented in the European Miocene by species of the existing Asiatic
genus Parrotia, and by the extinct ..."
2. Text-book of Geology by Sir Archibald Geikie (1902)
"... alder, oak, beech, chestnut, hornbeam, liquidambar, plane, willow, poplar,
laurel, cinnamon, buckthorn, with the Asiatic genus Parrotia, the Australian ..."
3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... is represented in the European Miocene by species of the existing Asiatic
genus Parrotia, and by the extinct ..."
4. The Student's Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, John Wesley Judd (1896)
"... Plane, Laurel, Cinnamon, and forms referred to the Asiatic genus Parrotia,
and the Australian ..."
5. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1916)
"The genus Parrotia, which includes a single existing species of northern Persia
and the Caucasus, contains 3 species in the Dakota sandstone, ..."
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