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Definition of Genus eriogonum
1. Noun. North American herbs of the buckwheat family.
Group relationships: Buckwheat Family, Family Polygonaceae, Polygonaceae
Member holonyms: Eriogonum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Eriogonum
Literary usage of Genus eriogonum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City by Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley (1861)
"By the side of the genus Eriogonum, so rich in species, are to be found in the
same region five or six other genera, still more curious in a scientific ..."
2. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nikolaus Triibner (1859)
"Observations on the genus eriogonum, &c , concluded. Character of a New Genus,
and Descriptions of three New Species upon which it is formed; discovered in ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The second paper was by Dr. John K. Small, ' On the genus eriogonum North of
Mexico,' a genus founded by Michaux upon a single species in 1803, ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1887)
"... of the bunch or clump from which it was taken. One of these bunches contains
sometimes as many as twenty-five flowers. The genus Eriogonum, of the order ..."
5. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences by Davenport Academy of Sciences (1883)
"Thus, while agreeing in its general habit with the closely allied and extensive
genus Eriogonum ("and with fully one-fourth as many species), ..."
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