Genus Lathyrus (Noun)
Meaning
Genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Lathyrus odoratus is a sweet pea with colorful, fragrant flowers native to the Old World in the genus Lathyrus.
- Members of the genus Lathyrus contain varying amounts of Lathyrus toxins in different concentrations within each part of the plant.
- These lathyrus plantlets consist of plants having pods without hard and prominent vein just opposite each valve.
- Examples of common flowers within the Genus Lathyrus include sweet peas, many wild peas, grass pea and the everlasting pea.
- Lathyrus nervosus, commonly known as Lord Anson's blue pea, is a species of wild pea in the vetchling or Lathyrus genus and is also known as the blue bean.