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Definition of Genus lotus
1. Noun. Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Babies' Slippers, Bacon And Eggs, Bird's Foot Clover, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Lotus Corniculatus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lotus
Literary usage of Genus lotus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... shrub or tree which hangs out over the water; and the genus Lotus (qv) is
distinct from all these. ..."
2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The Linnean genus, Lotus, has been divided by modern botanists into two genera
differing in the form of the pod, which in Lotus is always without wings ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"and in this sense is a synonym of the restricted genus LOTUS Linn. In order to
provide for the determination of the type in the case of genera resting ..."
4. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"A European genus (Lotus) uf small clovers, j growing in pastures, and preserving
their verdure in the hot weather from their long roots. ..."
5. Annual Report and Proceedings of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1841)
"... Mr Babington has well shown not to be specific in this genus, in his paper on
the British species of the genus Lotus (Annals of Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. ..."
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