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Definition of Genus Tagetes
1. Noun. Marigolds.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Marigold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tagetes
Literary usage of Genus Tagetes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"Tne genus Tagetes consists of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, natives of
the warmer parts of America, although T. crecía, one of those most ..."
2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"... belong to the genus Tagetes, so named from Tages, the grandson of Jupiter,
and son of Genius, who first taught the Etruscans the art of divination. ..."
3. Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent (1825)
"... belong to the genus Tagetes, so named from Tages, the grandson of Jupiter,
and son of Genius, who first taught the Etruscans ..."
4. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1887)
"1S' he African and French marigolds be- the genus tagetes ; the marigolds i he
poets are an entirely distinct genus ..."
5. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"The genus tagetes consists of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, natives of
the warmer parts of America, although T. erecta, one of those most ..."
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