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Definition of Genus gardenia
1. Noun. Large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees.
Group relationships: Family Rubiaceae, Madder Family, Rubiaceae
Member holonyms: Gardenia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gardenia
Literary usage of Genus gardenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... genus gardenia GARDENIA (named in honour of Dr. Alexander Garden of Charleston
Carolina, a correspondent of Linnaeus'). A genus including about sixty ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Gardenia Ellis, containing about sixty species of shrubs or rarely
trees of the eastern hemisphere, is represented by characteristic fruits in the ..."
3. Some American Medical Botanists Commemorated in Our Botanical Nomenclature by Howard Atwood Kelly (1914)
"Not one in a thousand knows after whom the genus Gardenia was named, so I quote
a letter from Linnaeus to John Ellis,' the botanist (1760), ..."
4. The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia by Brazil (1876)
"... an acid fruit supposed to possess medicinal properties. In the genus Gardenia
there are also ..."
5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and we have evidence of the existence of the handsome Asiatic and African
genus Gardenia in the Miocene of ..."
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