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Definition of Stenocarpus
1. Noun. Small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Proteaceae, Protea Family, Proteaceae
Member holonyms: Firewheel Tree, Stenocarpus Sinuatus, Wheel Tree, Beefwood, Scrub Beefwood, Stenocarpus Salignus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stenocarpus
Literary usage of Stenocarpus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"I refer it to stenocarpus, in the absence of fruit, ... and the general resemblance
of the flowers to the original stenocarpus Fors- ieri, ..."
2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"(a single layer on the upper side), and stenocarpus sinuatus, ... stenocarpus
sinuatus likewise shows sub- epidermal development of the cork and groups of ..."
3. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"stenocarpus, in Botany, from rm?, narrow, and **?«{, fruit. — Brown Tr. of Linn.
Soc. v. 10. 201. ... Oval-leaved stenocarpus. Br. Tr. of Linn. Soc. n. ..."
4. A Text-book of Woodby Herbert Stone by Herbert Stone (1921)
"Cross-section of the New Zealand Silky Oak (stenocarpus salignus), ... Block of
stenocarpus salignus, exterior of the log with a portion of the bark removed ..."
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