Definition of Genus Trillium

1. Noun. Deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae.

Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Trilliaceae, Trilliaceae, Trillium Family
Member holonyms: Trillium, Wake-robin, Wood Lily

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Trillium

genus Tricholoma
genus Trichomanes
genus Trichomonas
genus Trichophaga
genus Trichophyton
genus Trichostema
genus Trichostigma
genus Trichosurus
genus Trichys
genus Tridacna
genus Trifolium
genus Triga
genus Triglochin
genus Trigonella
genus Trilisa
genus Trillium (current term)
genus Trimorphodon
genus Trinectes
genus Tringa
genus Trionyx
genus Triops
genus Triostium
genus Triplochiton
genus Triticum
genus Triturus
genus Trogium
genus Troglodytes
genus Trogon
genus Trollius

Literary usage of Genus Trillium

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

1. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"The grade next higher than species we call genus. Trillium, then, is a genus. Briefly the characters of the genus trillium are as follows. 488. ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The grade next higher than species we call genus. Trillium, then, is a genus. Briefly the characters of the genus trillium are as follows: 1135. ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The grade next higher than species we call genus. Trillium, then, is a genus. Briefly the characters of the genus trillium are as follows: 1135. ..."

4. Lessons in Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"The grade next higher than species we call genus. Trillium, then, is a genus. Briefly the characters of the genus trillium are as follows. 376. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"The writer has called attention to some of these monstrosities in a former paper1 on three of the species of the genus Trillium, namely, Trillium sessile, ..."

6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1908)
"The genus Trillium seems peculiarly subject to departures from the normal type and cases without number, affecting every part of the plant, ..."

7. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"The genus trillium seems to be strongly inclined to the production of abnormalities. In the Ohio Journal of Science, William H. Watson has brought together ..."

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