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Definition of Genus swertia
1. Noun. Genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Gentianaceae, Gentian Family, Gentianaceae
Member holonyms: Marsh Felwort, Swertia Perennia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Swertia
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 ..."