Definition of Mutis

1. muti [n] - See also: muti

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutis

mutineered
mutineering
mutineers
mutines
muting
mutings
mutinied
mutinies
mutining
mutinous
mutinously
mutinousness
mutinousnesses
mutiny
mutinying
mutis (current term)
mutisia
mutism
mutisms
muton
mutons
mutoscope
mutoscopes
muts
mutt
mutter
mutter paneer
muttered
mutterer
mutterers

Literary usage of Mutis

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Here, as Alexander von Humboldt, an eyewitness, relates, mutis laid out a plantation of cinchona. mutis was obliged to train his whole staff of assistants ..."

2. Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona by Clements Robert Markham (1880)
"mutis and his disciples also had very hot arguments with the botanists Paiiz and Pavón, ... mutis sent him on a botanical excursion to Fusagasuga in 171W, ..."

3. Spain's Declining Power in South America, 1730-1806 by Bernard Moses (1919)
"CHAPTER X AWAKENING INTEREST IN SCIENCE AND POLITICS: mutis AND NARINO I. ... mutis' arrival and early years in New Granada. IV. mutis turns to botany; ..."

4. Francisco José de Caldas: A Scientist at Work in Nueva Granada by John Wilton Appel (1994)
"For mutis this meant that his disciple would stay in the viceroyalty. mutis was foresighted enough to plan on making good use of Caldas and providing him ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"mutis, Joseph Celestino, a celebrated botanist, born at Cadiz, in 1732, was assistant professor of anatomy at Madrid, and made botany the particular object ..."

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