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Definition of Genus casuarina
1. Noun. Genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies; coextensive with the family Casuarinaceae and order Casuarinales.
Group relationships: Casuarinaceae, Family Casuarinaceae
Member holonyms: Casuarina, She-oak, Beefwood, Australian Pine, Casuarina Equisetfolia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Casuarina
Literary usage of Genus casuarina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... trees of Australia ; but the name Oak is applied there to the trees of the
genus Casuarina (qv), and usually in the curious form of She-Oak (qv). ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"It will be remembered that Treub found that in the curious genus Casuarina the
pollen-tube entered the ovule near the chalaza, and on this character ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... the division of a single hypodermal cell. This point, however, needs further
investigation. CASUARINA. The very peculiar genus Casuarina, according to ..."
4. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"... in the dicotyledons, but present themselves in the condition typical for the
higher gymnosperms only in the genus Casuarina. Here, as is shown in Fig. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"It will be remembered that Treub found that in the curious genus Casuarina the
pollen-tube entered the ovule near the chalaza, and on this character ..."
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