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Definition of Genus calendula
1. Noun. Marigold.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Calendula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Calendula
Literary usage of Genus calendula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus calendula CALENDULA (Latin, calendas, the first day of each month ; in
allusion to its almost perpetual flowering). A genus of about twenty species of ..."
2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"will give a some idea of the general appearance of the genus. Calendula is a
genus of which several species arc natives of the Cape, and are evergreens, ..."
3. The Intellectual Observer (1866)
"... the genus is perhaps not distinct from Chrysanthemum; the curious genus,
Calendula, of which the garden marigold is a good example, is represented by a ..."
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