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Definition of Genus laurus
1. Noun. Small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, Laurel Family
Member holonyms: Bay, Bay Laurel, Bay Tree, Laurus Nobilis, True Laurel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Laurus
Literary usage of Genus laurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"JHE genus Laurus has been divided by modern botanists, and several genera formed
out of it ; but, for the sake of brevity, and the convenience of ..."
2. Rudiments of Latin: With Special Reference to the Nomenclature of the U.S by Julius William Sturmer (1908)
"A later botanist divided the genus Laurus into several genera, one of which he
named the genus Sassafras. To this genus was relegated the sassafras tree, ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"It should be restricted to the genus laurus or true laurel, which is the type
... The genus laurus formerly included several hundred species, among them the ..."
4. Young Lady's Book of Botany (1840)
"The genus cinnamomum was established by Dr. R. Brown, and separated from the old
genus Laurus, of Linnaeus ; a separation sanctioned as much by superior ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"... etc., to the comprehensive genus Laurus given at a time when Laurus was used
in a comprehensive sense, and sometimes still more generalized by ..."
6. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"The genus Laurus gives name to an order in the system of Mr. de Jussieu. It is
the fourth order of his sixth class. In the system of the same learned ..."
7. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1837)
"... Order we find the genus Laurus, which includes the cinnamon, bay, sassafras,
camphor, spice-bush, &c. The bay (Lauras no- bilis) is a native of Italy ..."
8. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1819)
"... but considers the Cassia and the Cinnamon as species of the same genus.
LAURUS Cinnamomum is the tree that produces the far famed spice, ..."
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