Definition of Genus brassia

1. Noun. Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Brassia

genus Bougainvillaea
genus Bougainvillea
genus Bouteloua
genus Bowiea
genus Boykinia
genus Brachinus
genus Brachychiton
genus Brachycome
genus Brachystegia
genus Bradypus
genus Brama
genus Branchiobdella
genus Branta
genus Brasenia
genus Brevoortia
genus Brickelia
genus Brodiaea
genus Bromus
genus Brontosaurus
genus Broussonetia
genus Browallia
genus Browmius
genus Bruchus
genus Bruckenthalia
genus Brugmansia
genus Brunfelsia
genus Brya

Literary usage of Genus brassia

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

1. The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany by George Beauchamp Knowles, Frederic Westcott (1838)
"AMONG orchidaceous plants, the genus Brassia is remarkable for the spider- like shape of its flowers, which are no less curious than elegant. ..."

2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1864)
"Grow in peaty loam, in green-house or cool house, terrestrial, and should dry off entirely in summer. There are many species of this genus. BRASSIA— ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1920)
"She had studied especially the genus Brassia and considered that there the mucilage was a product of the cytoplasm, not as has been thought for some ..."

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