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Definition of Genus aralia
1. Noun. Type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club.
Group relationships: Araliaceae, Family Araliaceae, Ivy Family
Member holonyms: Aralia, American Angelica Tree, Aralia Spinosa, Devil's Walking Stick, Hercules'-club, Aralia Nudicaulis, False Sarsaparilla, Wild Sarsaparilla, Wild Sarsparilla, American Spikenard, Aralia Racemosa, Life-of-man, Petty Morel, Aralia Hispida, Bristly Sarsaparilla, Bristly Sarsparilla, Dwarf Elder, Aralia Elata, Japanese Angelica Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aralia
Literary usage of Genus aralia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The genus Aralia contains a considerable number of species—trees, shrubs, and
herbaceous plants. ... The genus Aralia and an allied genus, Arali. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The genus Aralia as understood by the older botanists turns out to be a polymorphous
group, and in the segregation of other genera it is often difficult ..."
3. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"The Aralia family has no representative in eastern North America outside of the
genus Aralia and only one woody plant, Aralia spinosa, a small tree of the ..."
4. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1876)
"... of Liquidambar integrifolium ; and this apparent similarity can but suggest
the possible reference of all these and like forms to the genus Aralia. ..."
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