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Definition of Genus Pimpinella
1. Noun. Anise.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Apiaceae, Carrot Family, Family Apiaceae, Family Umbelliferae, Umbelliferae
Member holonyms: Anise, Anise Plant, Pimpinella Anisum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pimpinella
Literary usage of Genus Pimpinella
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)
"The genus Pimpinella, which embraces about 75 species, found in nearly all lands
but Australia, has compound umbels usually without involucres. ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"The genus pimpinella belongs to the umbelliferous tribes of plants inhabiting
the meadows and the mountains of Europe ant! Africa. ..."
3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus Pimpinella,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 893. Species about 70, natives
chiefly of the temperate parts of the Old World. 122. ..."
4. A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and by John Ogilvie (1855)
"The common name of three different species of British plants of the genus Pimpinella.
[See PIMPINELLA.] BUNK'UM, or SPEAKING FOR BUNK'UM, n. ..."
5. A Dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris, Ferdinand James Samuel Gorgas (1882)
"A plant of the genus Pimpinella. Trag'llM. In Anatomy, a small, triangular eminence
situated before the mea- tus auditorios externus. ..."
6. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"The genus pimpinella belongs to the umbelliferous tribes of plants inhabiting
meadows and mountains in Europe and Africa. ANJOU, an ancient province of NW ..."
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