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Definition of Genus filago
1. Noun. Genus of small woolly herbs.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Cotton Rose, Cudweed, Filago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Filago
Literary usage of Genus filago
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1818)
"... a section framed by LINNAEUS, even while he retained the genus Filago. HALLER,
and some other authors quote the Leontopodium, sive Pes Leonis, ..."
2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Used aa an antiseptic dressing for wounds. C. rose. The plants of the Genus
Filago, from their pubescence. C. seed. ..."
3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1849)
"I would recommend all those who feel interested in the genus Filago to read Mr.
Watson's admirable paper on the subject in the October number of the ' Phy ..."
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