Definition of Genus crotalaria

1. Noun. Large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Crotalaria

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
genus Cryptotermes
genus Cryptotis
genus Ctenocephalides

Literary usage of Genus crotalaria

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

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"... draws attention to the fact that no species of the genus Crotalaria are found in California, although there are several species natives of Mexico. ..."

2. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1846)
"The Crotalaria are a numerous genus : Crotalaria verrucosa is found near St. Louis; sericea exists in the same locality, and flowers in March; striata, ..."

3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1856)
"... belonging also to the genus ; Crotalaria, 9 sp., one, seemingly C. verrucosa, with blue flowers, another with large green flowers ; Zornia, ..."

4. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1899)
"Inanda. April. Wood No. 535. Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Durban, May, 1899. The genus Crotalaria ..."

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