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Definition of Genus genista
1. Noun. Chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Broom Tree, Genista Anglica, Needle Furze, Petty Whin, Genista Hispanica, Spanish Broom, Spanish Gorse, Dyer's Greenweed, Dyer's-broom, Dyeweed, Genista Tinctoria, Greenweed, Whin, Woadwaxen, Woodwaxen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Genista
Literary usage of Genus genista
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 (1896)
"genus genista, GENISTA (the classical Latin name used by Virgil). A genus of
about seventy species of shrubs with simple leaves (occasionally trefoils), ..."
2. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"... while in others the crop is cut once every two years; in the latter case
alternate rows are cut. Dyer's Greenwood or Woad-wax (genus genista). ..."
3. Essex Institute Historical Collections by Essex Institute (1896)
"Webster calls it the "woad waxen, a plant of the genus Genista {Genista tinctoria) ;
dyer's broom, or dyer's weed, called also wood wash, and wood wax and ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"One of the handsomest species in the genus Genista is G. virgata, which is hardy
enough at Kew, many large bushes having withstood probably more than thirty ..."
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