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Definition of Genus Peperomia

1. Noun. Large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Peperomia

Literary usage of Genus Peperomia

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

1. Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1823)
"The genus Peperomia was long ago divided from fiver by Ruiz and PAVÓN ; but by most subsequent botanists it has again been united to it, under the idea that ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"... differ widely in several respects from that found in the related genus Peperomia. The ovary in both genera seems to be syncarpous. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"Should it be verified, it might well be compared with the condition existing in Peperomia. PEPEROMIA. In the genus Peperomia the ..."

4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The plants constituting this gen ид of the natural order 1'ipera.cece are closely allied to those included in the genus Peperomia, from which they differ in ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"... species of the genus Peperomia from the mountains of South and Central America have pseudo-monocotyledonous seedlings. ..."

6. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"The genus Peperomia belongs to the fourth type, in which the vascular bundles are scattered in the ground-tissue (Fig. 169, D). ..."

7. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"... perfectly glabrous, and the leaves are in a whirl of four. The genus Peperomia has been elaborately described in the celebrated work " Systema ..."

8. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Sanio states that the latter occurs among Piperaceae, in the genus Peperomia, where the leaf- trace-bundles which constitute an outer circle are hot united ..."

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