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Definition of Genus Sanguinaria
1. Noun. One species: bloodroot.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, Poppy Family
Member holonyms: Bloodroot, Puccoon, Redroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis, Tetterwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sanguinaria
Literary usage of Genus Sanguinaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"It is the only species we at present possess of the genus Sanguinaria, distinguished
by a two leaved calyx eight petals, and an oblong capsule, ..."
2. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"It is the only species we at present possess of the genus Sanguinaria, distinguished
by a two leaved calyx eight petals, and an oblong capsule, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"The Blood-root, or Puccoon, commonly found throughout the United States and
Canada, is the sole representative of the genus Sanguinaria of the Papaveraceae. ..."
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