Definition of Genus Salvinia

1. Noun. Type genus of the Salviniaceae: water ferns.

Exact synonyms: Salvinia
Group relationships: Family Salviniaceae, Salviniaceae
Member holonyms: Floating-moss, Salvinia Auriculata, Salvinia Rotundifolia
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Salvinia

genus Saimiri
genus Saintpaulia
genus Salamandra
genus Salicornia
genus Salix
genus Salmo
genus Salmonella
genus Salpa
genus Salpichroa
genus Salpiglossis
genus Salpinctes
genus Salsola
genus Salvadora
genus Salvelinus
genus Salvia
genus Salvinia (current term)
genus Sambucus
genus Samia
genus Samolus
genus Sanguinaria
genus Sanicula
genus Sansevieria
genus Santalum
genus Santolina
genus Sanvitalia
genus Sapindus
genus Saponaria
genus Saprolegnia
genus Sarcobatus
genus Sarcocephalus

Literary usage of Genus Salvinia

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

1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"In the genus Salvinia the microspores lie imbedded in a mass of granular hardened mucilage (as they do also in Azolla, in which plant their germination is ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"*More especially they resemble the sporocarps of the genus Salvinia. This fact opens up an entirely new field of investigation as to these interesting ..."

3. The Geological History of Plants by John William Dawson (1888)
"More especially they resemble the sporocarps of the genus Salvinia. This fact opened up an entirely new field of investigation, and I at once proceeded to ..."

4. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... the rootless genus Salvinia is represented in the Upper and Lower Miocene of the Continent, and also in the Laramie and higher beds of America. ..."

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