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Definition of Genus capparis
1. Noun. Tropical or subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caper Family, Capparidaceae, Family Capparidaceae
Member holonyms: Caper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Capparis
Literary usage of Genus capparis
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 Capparis has furnished a well-marked Wilcox species very close to the
existing Antillean tree Capparis domingensis Sprengel. ..."
2. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"These exceptions occur chiefly in the genus Capparis, which, as it is at present
constituted, includes species differing from each other in having an ..."
3. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"I shall here mention the principal natural assemblages of this class* The genus
Capparis belongs to ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1847)
"... and some which are regarded as deleterious, dispersed throughout the Antilles,
among these the genus Capparis presents many, which, when in blossom, ..."
5. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with ...by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1902)
"The genus Capparis includes about 120 species inhabiting the warmer parts of
Europe and Asia, of which 11 are enumerated as being natives of Africa, ..."
6. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"The bark is sold in commerce as cinnamon, and is the best cinnamon bark produced
in the Philippines by a wild species. Family CAPPARIDACEAE Genus CAPPARIS ..."
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