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Definition of Genus Serratula
1. Noun. Genus of Old World perennial herbs with spirally arranged toothed leaves.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Sawwort, Serratula Tinctoria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Serratula
Literary usage of Genus Serratula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1814)
"... paper on the genus serratula was read. He described 18 species. He described,
likewise, about 14 species of a new genus, distinguished by the name of ..."
2. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1814)
"... paper on the genus serratula was read. He described 18 species. He described,
likewise, about 14 species of a new genus, distinguished by the name of ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1829)
"There is no occasion, as one is advised at Seo, to spend the night on the mountain.
The road up is • The genus Serratula has been of late much divided, ..."
4. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"Related to the Thistle, through the medium of the very proximate genus Serratula,
is that of Vernonia, peculiarly American. Most of the species, ..."