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Definition of Genus grevillea
1. Noun. Large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers.
Group relationships: Family Proteaceae, Protea Family, Proteaceae
Member holonyms: Grevillea, Silk Oak, Grevillela Parallela, Silver Oak, Grevillea Robusta, Silky Oak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Grevillea
Literary usage of Genus grevillea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... to form a section, of the large genus Grevillea. It contains about eight
species, all from South-west Australia; and Is distinguished chiefly by its ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... Robert K. Greville of Edinburgh was born on the 14th Dec., 1794, he was
therefore only just fourteen years old when the genus Grevillea was established. ..."
3. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales: By Various Hands...together with by Barron Field (1825)
"... remain to be added; and of any individual genus, Grevillea has received the
most considerable accession of unpublished species, belonging chiefly to Mr. ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1840)
"This would seem to be one of the most attractive species of the singular genus
Grevillea. " Mr. Brown considers this plant scarcely specifically distinct ..."
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