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Definition of Genus Parthenium
1. Noun. Small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Guayule, Parthenium Argentatum, Bastard Feverfew, Parthenium Hysterophorus, American Feverfew, Parthenium Integrifolium, Prairie Dock, Wild Quinine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Parthenium
Literary usage of Genus Parthenium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"In the genus Parthenium, as in all the Compositae, the order to which it belongs,
the flowers are arranged in heads or capitula (fig. 10). ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"The second paper, by Dr. NL Britton, ' The genus Parthenium in Eastern North
America,' was a description of a new species of Parthe- nium, ..."
3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"The Compositae has one genus, Parthenium, that yields the Guayule rubber of Mexico.
"The Euphorbiaceae is the most important family from a commerical ..."
4. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture by Jamaica Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, Dept. of Agriculture, William Fawcett (1907)
"The supply of Guayule has been greatly over-estimated, principally because of
the confusing of Guayule with another species of the same genus, Parthenium ..."
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