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Definition of Genus scabiosa
1. Noun. Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean.
Group relationships: Dipsacaceae, Family Dipsacaceae
Member holonyms: Scabiosa, Scabious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Scabiosa
Literary usage of Genus scabiosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"It is a useful plant for summer flowers. Scabious. The genus Scabiosa. Blue.
Scabiosa Buccina. Caucasian. Scabiosa Caucásica. Devil's Bit. ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... genus scabiosa SCABIOSA (Latin, scabies, the itch; formerly used as a medicine
in skin diseases). A genus consisting of about eighty species of ..."
3. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1846)
"Weeds of the genus Scabiosa, at one time celebrated for curing the itch. SCABROUS.
Rough, from minute inequalities. SCAFFOLDING. The temporary frame-work ..."
4. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... genus Scabiosa ; one of them in October soon after the first spring rains
clothes the meadows and pastures of ..."
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