Definition of Genus tacca

1. Noun. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.

Exact synonyms: Tacca
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Taccaceae, Taccaceae
Member holonyms: Indian Arrowroot, Pia, Tacca Leontopetaloides, Tacca Pinnatifida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tacca

genus Symphoricarpos
genus Symphytum
genus Symplocarpus
genus Symplocus
genus Synagrops
genus Synanceja
genus Synaptomys
genus Synchytrium
genus Synercus
genus Syngnathus
genus Syngonium
genus Syringa
genus Syrrhaptes
genus Syzygium
genus Tabernaemontana
genus Tacca
genus Tachyglossus
genus Tachypleus
genus Tadarida
genus Tadorna
genus Taenia
genus Tagetes
genus Talinum
genus Tamandua
genus Tamarindus
genus Tamarix
genus Tamias
genus Tamiasciurus
genus Tamus
genus Tanacetum

Literary usage of Genus tacca

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

1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"PINEAPPLE. In some parts of the Philippines, particularly in parts of Palawan, the pineapple has become thoroughly naturalized. Family TACCACEAE Genus TACCA ..."

2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... tropical genus Tacca, belonging to the regular-flowered monocotyledons with an inferior ovary, has been considered sufficiently distinct in organisation ..."

3. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"In the instance of the genus Tacca there is in Fiji an inland species, T. maculata, associated with a wide-ranging beach species, T. pinnatifida, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"The tropical genus Tacca, belonging to the group of regular-flowered monocotyledons with an inferior ovary, has been considered sufficiently distinct in ..."

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