Definition of Genus crocus

1. Noun. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.

Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Iridaceae, Iridaceae, Iris Family
Member holonyms: Crocus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Crocus

genus Crambe
genus Crangon
genus Craspedia
genus Crataegus
genus Crateva
genus Crax
genus Crepis
genus Crescentia
genus Crex
genus Cricetus
genus Crocethia
genus Crocodilus
genus Crocodylus
genus Crocus
genus Crocuta
genus Cronartium
genus Crotalaria
genus Crotalus
genus Crotaphytus
genus Croton
genus Crotophaga
genus Cryptacanthodes
genus Cryptobranchus
genus Cryptocercus
genus Cryptocoryne
genus Cryptogramma
genus Cryptomeria
genus Cryptoprocta

Literary usage of Genus crocus

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The genus Crocus is S, European and Southwestern Asian. ... The best account of the Crocuses is G. Maw's superb Monograph of the genus crocus, 1886. ..."

2. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1817)
"The remarkable reticulated covering of the bull-tuber, distinguishes it at once from all other species of the genus. Crocus ..."

3. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"... of the genus crocus, by RA SALISBURY, Esq. FRS, &c. JL HE science of Botany is so extensive, and so much time is necessary to a full investigation of ..."

4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"... take up crocuses and plant them I anew, on account of the manner in which the corms multiply. See CORM ; and Mard, Monograph of the genus crocus (1887). ..."

5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1843)
"Dean of Manchester, who has studied the genus Crocus, has given an account of this species, its localities, &c. He states that the genus is naturalized in ..."

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