Definition of Genus swertia

1. Noun. Genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa.

Exact synonyms: Swertia
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Marsh Felwort, Swertia Perennia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Swertia

genus Sturnus
genus Stylomecon
genus Stylophorum
genus Styphelia
genus Styracosaurus
genus Styrax
genus Subularia
genus Suillus
genus Suksdorfia
genus Sula
genus Sundacarpus
genus Suricata
genus Surnia
genus Sus
genus Swainsona
genus Swertia
genus Swietinia
genus Sylvilagus
genus Symphalangus
genus Symphoricarpos
genus Symphytum
genus Symplocarpus
genus Symplocus
genus Synagrops
genus Synanceja
genus Synaptomys
genus Synchytrium
genus Synercus
genus Syngnathus
genus Syngonium

Literary usage of Genus swertia

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

1. A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus, and Other Naturalists, from by James Edward Smith, Carl von Linné (1821)
"... or whatever * Most of the differences here pointed out really do not hold good, with respect to the true type of the genus, Swertia peren- nis; ..."

2. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"... should two specie« hereafter be well made out I have long doubted that our North American représentation of the genus SWERTIA is rationally to be ..."

3. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1882)
"Halenia is at the same time a high-northern and an Andean genus. Swertia is absent from the Atlantic side of the continent. As to the peculiarly American ..."

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