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Definition of Genus Rhexia
1. Noun. Deer grass.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Melastomaceae, Family Melastomataceae, Meadow-beauty Family, Melastomaceae, Melastomataceae
Member holonyms: Deer Grass, Meadow Beauty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rhexia
Literary usage of Genus Rhexia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"Only a single genus (Rhexia) and less than a dozen species are North American.
They tire perennial herbs, usually 1-2 feet in height, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1891)
"... abundant in Mexico, are represented in the United States only by one eastern
genus (Rhexia) found as far north as New England. ..."
3. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"A large order in the tropics, represented in northern temperate regions only by
the genus Rhexia of the Atlantic States. None in common cultivation, ..."
4. The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their by Hugh Murray, James Nicol (1844)
"... and Hippuris vulgaris, or Horsetail of the English botany. The genus Rhexia,
belonging to the order ..."
5. Letters of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Jane Loring Gray (1894)
"I have learned from Brown the character he observed in our species of Rhexia,
that is, the true genus Rhexia : the ..."
6. The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their by Hugh Murray, James Nicol (1844)
"... and Hippuris vulgaris, or Horsetail of the English botany. The genus Rhexia,
belonging to the order ..."
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