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Definition of Genus malus
1. Noun. Apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, Rose Family
Member holonyms: Apple Tree, Apple, Malus Pumila, Orchard Apple Tree, Cherry Apple, Cherry Crab, Malus Baccata, Siberian Crab, Siberian Crab Apple, Malus Sylvestris, Wild Crab, American Crab Apple, Garland Crab, Malus Coronaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Malus
Literary usage of Genus malus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... IOWA CRAB The genus Malus is native to the whole of eastern Asia. We have four
native species. Our cultivated crab apples and the hundreds of orchard ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... the fruit is not hollowed at the base : the sub-genus Malus includes P.
Mains and others, the Apple-trees ; the fruit is hollowed at the base, ..."
3. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Some authors make a distinct genus, Malus, for the Apple« and another one, Sorbus,
for the Mountain Ashes. Both are Included under I'yni,' in this ..."
4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"Reciprocal hybridizations between standard orchard varieties and various species
of the genus Malus have been made, fifty-seven species and varieties which ..."
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