Definition of Keteleeria

1. Noun. Asiatic conifers resembling firs.

Group relationships: Genus Keteleeria
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Keteleeria

ketazine
ketazines
ketazocine
ketazolam
ketch
ketched
ketches
ketching
ketchup
ketchup bottle
ketchupless
ketchuplike
ketchuppy
ketchups
kete
keteleeria (current term)
ketembilla
ketembilla tree
ketene
ketenes
ketenide
ketenides
ketenimine
ketenimines
ketide
ketides
ketimine
ketimine reductase
ketimines
ketine

Literary usage of Keteleeria

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

1. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"Handel-Mazzetti (1929) reports a young stand oí keteleeria in Yunnan Province that was completely killed by this dwarf mistletoe, which apparently forms ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"keteleeria certainly constitutes a distinct genus and cannot Ixi united with either Abies, Picea, Tsuga or Pseudotsuga. It is chiefly distinguished by the ..."

3. Gardeners Chronicle, the Horticultural Trade Journal (1897)
"Several trees are especially noteworthy too, ou account of their great rarity, notably, a magnificent, plant of keteleeria (Abies) Fortunei, which Messrs. ..."

4. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"... the Renie Horticole we learn that the interesting Conifer keteleeria FOB- ... those of the keteleeria are erect. The tree has more of the appearance of ..."

5. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1866)
"The name M. Carrière proposes is keteleeria Fortune!, and it is distinguished from Abies aud Picea in having the erect cones of the latter and the ..."

6. On the Conifers of Japan by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1881)
"keteleeria Fortunei, Carriere, Revue Horticole, 1866, p. ... On these grounds he established for it the genus keteleeria; but Mr. Bentham (Benth. et Hook. ..."

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