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Definition of Genus hepatica

1. Noun. Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions; allied to genus Anemone.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hepatica

Literary usage of Genus hepatica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"Without considering how minute were the characteristics upon which the genus Hepatica was founded by Dillenius, let us see in what the two American species ..."

2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"To take a few examples from the early pages of the " Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States," — the genus Hepatica comes from the shape of the ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... and the rhizomes of A. nemorosa, and others, have been recommended in obstinate rheumatism and in tenia.—The genus Hepatica was formerly included in AH ..."

4. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"The writer has also examined the stem of the closely allied genus Hepatica. In the seeding of Hepatica triloba ..."

5. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1852)
"This little plant appears to be intermediate between the genus Hepatica, which has a sessile flower, ..."

6. Lens by State Microscopical Society of Illinois (1872)
"OF the genus Hepatica, Dill., the latest manuals give two species, H. triloba, Chaix, and H. acutiloba, DC., distinguished mainly by the difference in form ..."

7. Flower Poems by John Clare (2001)
"... and lose themselves, if need be, in its dense thickets' [RM] hepatica, any plant of a genus (Hepatica) of herbs of the buttercup family hing, ‘to hang. ..."

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