Definition of Genus bauhinia

1. Noun. Mountain ebony, orchid tree.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bauhinia

genus Bambusa
genus Bankia
genus Banksia
genus Baphia
genus Baptisia
genus Barbarea
genus Barosaurus
genus Bartle-Frere
genus Bartramia
genus Basiliscus
genus Bathyergus
genus Batis
genus Batrachoseps
genus Bauhinia
genus Beaumontia
genus Begonia
genus Belamcanda
genus Bellis
genus Bemisia
genus Bennettitis
genus Benzoin
genus Berberis
genus Bergenia
genus Beroe
genus Berteroa
genus Bertholletia
genus Bessera
genus Besseya

Literary usage of Genus bauhinia

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Bauhinia which has about 150 existing species of the tropics of both hemispheres has several especially characteristic forms in the Upper ..."

2. Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1850)
"... the true genus Bauhinia belongs to the New Continent: the African Bauhinia, B. rufescens (Lam. ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1908)
"A NEW CRETACEOUS BAUHINIA* BY EDWARD W. BERRY The genus Bauhinia Linne of the Caesalpiniaceae has upwards of one hundred and fifty species in the modern ..."

4. The Geological History of Plants by John William Dawson (1888)
"They are deeply bilobed, and have the peculiar and characteristic form and nervation of the leaves of this genus. Bauhinia is a leguminous genus allied to ..."

5. Aspects of Nature: In Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1849)
"... the true genus Bauhinia belongs to the New Continent: the African Bauhinia, B. rufescens, (Lam. ..."

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