Definition of Genus mitella

1. Noun. Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mitella

genus Microsporum
genus Microstomus
genus Microstrobos
genus Microtus
genus Micruroides
genus Micrurus
genus Mikania
genus Millettia
genus Miltonia
genus Mimosa
genus Mimus
genus Minuartia
genus Mirabilis
genus Mirounga
genus Mitchella
genus Mitella
genus Mnium
genus Mobula
genus Moehringia
genus Mohria
genus Mola
genus Mollienesia
genus Molluga
genus Moloch
genus Molothrus
genus Molucella
genus Molva
genus Momordica
genus Momotus
genus Monarda

Literary usage of Genus mitella

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

1. The Barnacles (Cirripedia): Contained in the Collections of the U. S by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Subfamily S Genus MITELLA Oken. 1815. Mitella OKEN, Lehrbuch der Zoologie, I, p. 362, for Lepas pollicipes. 1817. Pollicipes LEACH, Journal de Physique, ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"Supplement-Band) presents a revision of the genus Mitella, recognizing 12 species, one of which is new to science.—WE SAFFORD (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... a wheel used for cutting a groove of triangular section. miterwort (mï'ter-wert), я. A name common to all plants of the genus Mitella False miter- wort. ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1829)
"I agree entirely with Dr Hooker that this plant ought not to be separated from the genus Mitella. Its habit and structure belong so exactly to that genus, ..."

5. Erythea: A Journal of Botany, West American and General by Willis Linn Jepson (1895)
"Perhaps this will be made a distinct species when some one who knows our Lupines works out a revision of the genus. Mitella ..."

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