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Definition of Roystonea
1. Noun. A monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Arecaceae, Family Arecaceae, Family Palmaceae, Family Palmae, Palm Family, Palmaceae, Palmae
Member holonyms: Royal Palm, Roystonea Regia, Cabbage Palm, Roystonea Oleracea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roystonea
Literary usage of Roystonea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus roystonea, Cook The Royal Palm (roystonea regia, Cook) is one of the noblest
of tropical trees, bearing its abundant crown of foliage, each leaf 10 to ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Genus roystonea, Cook BB. Fruit orange-scarlet, among leaves. ... Genus roystonea,
Cook The Royal Palm (roystonea regia, Cook) is one of the noblest of ..."
3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"It should be said that I have not seen the colony of trees from which the specimen
came on which Mr. Cook bases his roystonea Floridana (Curtiss, no. ..."
4. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1905)
"F. Cook to be distinct, Prof. Britton concludes that the two palms are one and
the same species. In other words, roystonea ..."
5. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1905)
"roystonea is confined to the tropics of the New World, where two or three species
occur. The genus as here limited was named for General Roy Stone of the ..."
6. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1905)
"roystonea is confined to the tropics-of the New World, where two or three species
occur. The genus as here limited was named for General Roy Stone of the ..."
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