Lexic.us

Definition of Genus manihot

1. Noun. Genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Manihot

Literary usage of Genus manihot

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

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"CASSAVA, the meal, and bread made from it, obtained from the roots of several species of the genus manihot (from the Indian manioc), ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1863)
"CASSAVA, the meal, and bread made from it, obtained from the roots of several species of the genus manihot (from the Indian ..."

3. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"The genus manihot is shrubby or herbaceous, or shrubby below and herbaceous above. Male and female flowers are distinct, though on the same plant. ..."

4. The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia by Brazil (1876)
"ALIMENTARY ROOTS Among these roots the following deserve mention : in the genus Manihot, the manioc or cassava of different species, and among these, ..."

5. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley, W. North (1892)
"The name 'bitter cassava' is commonly given to it in the West Indies, to distinguish it from another species of the same genus, Manihot aipi, Pohl, which, ..."

6. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus manihot,* Adans. Baill., Hist. PI., v, p. 180. Over 70 species have been described, natives of tropical parts of the New World. 235. ..."

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