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Definition of Genus pisum

1. Noun. Small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines: peas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pisum

Literary usage of Genus pisum

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

1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1897)
"... he then, like Bentham, divides it into the two genera, vicia—vetch, and lathyrus—pea. He ignores a genus pisum, including any so-called with the ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"... much progress has been made and on what basis of fact the Men- delian analysis of Pi-sum rests. THE MATERIALS. The genus Pisum, according to the Index ..."

3. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"Peas (genus Pisum).—The cultivated varieties of peas are usually supposed to belong to two species, namely : (i) the Field Pea (Pisum arvense L.), ..."

4. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"Peas (genus Pisum).—The cultivated varieties of peas are usually supposed to belong to two species, namely : (i) the Field Pea (Pisum arvense L.), ..."

5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"The genus Pisum has a calyx with foliaceous веет:--'- the two upper ones being shortest ; the vexillum an. ..."

6. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"The pea, so much valued as a table vegetable, belongs to the genus Pisum, a species of which, called Beach-pea, is found upon the shores of lakes and the ..."

7. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"The genus Pisum comprises all forms and varieties of the cultivated pea, while the Fig. IM. Hairy vetch, Vitia villosa, showing also enlarged flower, ..."

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