Definition of Genus Scilla

1. Noun. Sometimes placed in subfamily Hyacinthaceae.

Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Liliaceae, Liliaceae, Lily Family
Member holonyms: Scilla, Squill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Scilla

genus Schefflera
genus Schinus
genus Schistosoma
genus Schizachyrium
genus Schizaea
genus Schizanthus
genus Schizopetalon
genus Schizophragma
genus Schizosaccharomyces
genus Schlumbergera
genus Schomburgkia
genus Sciadopitys
genus Sciaena
genus Sciaenops
genus Sciara
genus Scilla (current term)
genus Scincella
genus Scincus
genus Scindapsus
genus Scirpus
genus Sciurus
genus Scleranthus
genus Scleroderma
genus Sclerotinia
genus Sclerotium
genus Scolopax
genus Scolopendrium
genus Scolymus
genus Scolytus
genus Scomber

Literary usage of Genus Scilla

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

1. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"The species of the genus Scilla have petals with a longitudinal nerve running along their ... The genus Scilla is likewise nearly related to that of Hy- ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The plant is closely related to the genus Scilla, but in the opinion of the undersigned it is much closer to Or- ..."

3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus Scilla SCILLA (the old Greek name for these plants). A genus of about eighty species of bulbous perennials with slender, radical leaves, ..."

4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"... The genus Scilla is an exotic, containing the squill, a medicinal plant, and the hare-bell of English poets ; the latter is SCILLA ..."

5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"It is Urginea scilla. formerly included in the genus Scilla, the fleshy bulbs of which are sliced for market, the extreme outside scales and the central ..."

6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1842)
"... and separated from the old genus Scilla, from which it differs in the possession of the nectariferous glands on the ovary, and other minor points. ..."

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