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Definition of Genus Thalictrum

1. Noun. Widely distributed genus of perennial herbs: meadow rue.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Thalictrum

Literary usage of Genus Thalictrum

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

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"genus Thalictrum THALICTRUM .(the classical name), a genus of about fifty species, widely distributed in the temperate and colder regions of the Northern ..."

2. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"Linnaeus (1753) named it Anemone thalictroides, which name was followed by the earlier botanists. Michaux () transferred it to the genus Thalictrum, ..."

3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1819)
"After all the pains that the indefatigable DE CANDOLLE has taken with the genus THALICTRUM, we have found it very difficult to decide to which of his ..."

4. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"The carpels are also completely those of the genus Thalictrum. The species is a native of the whole of North America, as it is found in every part of that ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"... of the leaflets of compound leaves is still more exceptional, only two such cases having so far been recorded—namely, in the genus Thalictrum. 3. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"MEADOW-RUE, a plant of the crowfoot family and of the genus Thalictrum. These rues are erect perennial herbs, with much divided leaves and small flowers, ..."

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