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Definition of Genus sabbatia
1. Noun. Genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers.
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Sabbatia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sabbatia
Literary usage of Genus sabbatia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"... particularly in the anthers and stigma ; I have followed the example of Pursh
and others in referring it to the genus Sabbatia of Adanson. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"In the genus Sabbatia the handsome flowers are wheel-shaped, and the coloration
seems to have changed from yellowish to white or pink, or pink-purple. ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayedby John Sims by John Sims (1814)
"... one-celled : receptacles of the feeds 2, lateral, divided into two revolute
branches. Seeds globular. The genus SABBATIA was ..."
4. A sketch of the principal families of plants, explanatory of A tabular view by Arthur Henfrey (1855)
"G. lutea, the yellow Gentian of the European mountains, yields the bitter root
used in medicine. Lisianthus is a handsome stove genus. Sabbatia, a North ..."
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