Definition of Genus sinapis

1. Noun. Small genus of Old World herbs usually included in genus Brassica.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sinapis

genus Sialia
genus Sialis
genus Sida
genus Sidalcea
genus Sideritis
genus Sigmodon
genus Silene
genus Sillago
genus Silphium
genus Silurus
genus Silvia
genus Silybum
genus Simarouba
genus Simulium
genus Sinanthropus
genus Sinapis
genus Sinningia
genus Sinornis
genus Siren
genus Sison
genus Sistrurus
genus Sisymbrium
genus Sisyrinchium
genus Sitophylus
genus Sitotroga
genus Sitta
genus Sium
genus Sivapithecus
genus Sloanea
genus Smilax

Literary usage of Genus sinapis

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

1. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"The genus Sinapis cannot be kept separate from Brassica by any satisfactory characters. DC. Syst., ii, p. 608; Syme, EB, i, p. 126; Hook, f., Stud. Fl., p. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1898)
"The genus Sinapis is maintained as distinct from Brassica. Three other generic changes are required, not on this account, but merely to correct errors in ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1898)
"The genus Sinapis is maintained as distinct from Brassica. Three other generic changes are required, not on this account, but merely to correct errors in ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"In speaking of the Brassica family, we cannot help expressing our conviction of the justice of including the genus Sinapis with Brassica ; for justas our ..."

5. The American Farmer's Instructor, Or Practical Agriculturist: Comprehending by Francis S. Wiggins (1840)
"Of the genus Sinapis, either the white or the black species may be sown. The black mustard, Sinapis nipu, is the species usually cultivated for that well ..."

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