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Definition of Najas
1. Noun. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Naiadaceae, Family Najadaceae, Naiad Family, Naiadaceae, Najadaceae
Member holonyms: Naiad, Water Nymph
Definition of Najas
1. Noun. (plural of naja) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Najas
Literary usage of Najas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"STAMENS 1 (najas ... or 4—3 (Posidonia); filaments 0 (najas ... najas), dehiscence
longitudinal; pollen usually ..."
2. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"According to Lin- nasus, najas is furnished with a single anther only, whilst
the figure of Micheli announces four ; whence I refer the genus to ..."
3. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society (1887)
"Heft 10 :— "I have examined the specimens of najas graminea collected by Delile
in the rice-fields near Rosetta, as also those obtained by Schweinfurth near ..."
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