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Definition of Genus echinocereus
1. Noun. Large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Cactaceae, Cactus Family, Family Cactaceae
Member holonyms: Hedgehog Cereus, Rainbow Cactus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Echinocereus
Literary usage of Genus echinocereus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1922)
"South American representative of the North American genus Echinocereus. It is
like it in habit, ribs, flowers, and fruit, but its stigma-lobes are red, ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Opuntia flower, showing styles and ovary. mass of stamens, as in the genus
Echinocereus, in which the emerald-green star contrasts prettily with the ..."
3. Cactaceœ of Northeastern and Central Mexico Together with a Synopsis of the by William Edwin Safford (1909)
"One of them, Echinocereus berlandieri, is shown on plate 3, figure 2. Another plant
of very different habit, formerly classed with the genus Echinocereus, ..."
4. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Southern California Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences (1849)
"After a careful revision of the characters which distinguish my genus Echinocereus (
Wisl. Rrp. note 7) from Cereus proper, I think it most natural to unite ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1907)
"The genus Echinocereus includes many species with edible fruits. In fact, the
fruits of this genus are often preferred to the prickly pears, ..."
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