Definitions for Genista

Genista ge·nis·ta

Spelling: [juh-nis-tuh]
IPA: /dʒəˈnɪs tə/

Genista is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in Genista (aeginst).

Definitions for Genista

noun

  1. any plant belonging to the genus Genista, of the legume family, having showy flowers and including many species of broom.
  2. a related plant, Cytisus canariensis, of the Canary Islands, having loose clusters of fragrant yellow flowers.

Origin of Genista

1615-25; New Latin, Latin: the broomplant

Examples for Genista

It feeds in July and August on broom, dyer's greenweed (genista tinctoria), persicaria, and other low plants.

The genista tomentosa yields red petals used in dyeing, and containing much tannic acid.

Resting under a solitary broom bush (a kind of genista), he gave vent to his disappointment in a prayer for death.

Here he has stopped to survey his rear—there he has lingered to nibble a genista, and the spoor zigzags to and fro.

Jacinto Quesada drew back from the entangled buckthorn and genista.

The only prominent form of vegetation is a peculiar tall broom—genista Etnensis—which here flourishes.

The other species of genista should not be pruned, except to keep them in shape.

He afterwards took the name of Plantagenet (Planta genista) and transmitted it to his princely posterity.

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