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Definition of Genus Sarracenia
1. Noun. Pitcher plants.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Sarraceniaceae, Pitcher-plant Family, Sarraceniaceae
Member holonyms: Common Pitcher Plant, Huntsman's Cup, Huntsman's Cups, Sarracenia Purpurea, Hooded Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia Minor, Huntsman's Horn, Huntsman's Horns, Sarracenia Flava, Trumpets, Yellow Pitcher Plant, Yellow Trumpet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sarracenia
Literary usage of Genus Sarracenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York by N.Y. Lyceum of Natural History (New York, New York Academy of Sciences (1848)
"HAVING enjoyed very favourable opportunities of observing the genus Sarracenia,
and having examined all the known species in their native situations, ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"The extremely interesting devices whereby the plants of the North American genus
Sarracenia are able to entrap great numbers of insects, have been described ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1876)
"Thus, the genus Sarracenia contains six species, all of them natives of the
Atlantic States, and only one of them having at all an extensive range, viz. ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1863)
"... of the appendage terminating the tubular portion of the leaves to an Indian
squaw's cap. BOTANY.—The genus Sarracenia was placed by Necker in his ..."
5. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1846)
"... Dr. Planchon suggests that the genus Sarracenia has an " immediate affinity "
with Pyrola. His views are not fully explained; but it seems that he ..."
6. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1908)
"... that in this species the method of pollination differs in some respects from
the published accounts of this process in the genus Sarracenia in general. ..."
7. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nikolaus Triibner (1859)
"Observations on the genus Sarracenia, with an account of a New Species, by II.
B. Croom . . . . . . .95 90. ..."
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