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Definition of Genus Ulex
1. Noun. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Furze, Gorse, Irish Gorse, Ulex Europaeus, Whin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ulex
Literary usage of Genus Ulex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"genus Ulex (done), (ii) Leaves flat. Calyx shortly two-lipped. Genus Genista (Dyers
Weed). 5. Leaves digitate witu more than three leaflets. ..."
2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"genus Ulex (Gorse). (ii) Leaves flat. Calyx shortly two-lipped. Genus Genista (Dyer's
Weed). 5. Leaves digitate with more than three leaflets. ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1865)
"M. lupulina has a similar arrangement of fibres, and the same may be observed in
the genus Ulex. In Loranthus the fibres are dispersed in small numbers, ..."
4. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1904)
"... hairy and stipulate leaves, proper to the group of Leguminosae to which the
genus Ulex belongs. See p. 161. Sometimes the spines (branches) of older ..."
5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1865)
"M. lupulina has a similar arrangement of fibres, and the same may be observed in
the genus Ulex. In Loranthus the fibres are dispersed in small numbers, ..."