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Definition of Genus stevia
1. Noun. Genus of shrubs and herbs of tropical and warm Americas.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Stevia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Stevia
Literary usage of Genus stevia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1907)
"The Eupatorieae are represented by nine species of the genus Eupatorium, which
extend from ^Xorth America; by a few species of the Brazilian genus Stevia, ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)
"The Eupatorieae are represented by nine species of the genus Eupatorium, which
extend from !North America; by a few species of the Brazilian genus Stevia, ..."
3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... we stopped to dine; and here on a bar of gravel I found a new species of the
Mexican genus Stevia, and never saw it afterwards in any other locality. ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"... anum but it is now sometimes placed in the closely allied genus Stevia.
The principle that causes the sweet taste has been ..."
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