LILAC substantive (Persian, lilac). Botany – Genus of Oleineae, in the subfamily Fraxineae, which includes several species of ornamental shrubs that bloom in early spring and bear small flowers, in numerous and very fragrant bunches: white lilac, red or purple lilac.
- Adjectiv. Blue mixed with red, which is usually …Read more »

GINKGO substantive (Japanese name). Botany – genus of coniferous trees in the family Taxaceae⁽¹⁾, close to yews and including large trees with taproot, straight stem, covered with a grayish bark. Ginkgo biloba (salisburia adiantifolia), a large tree from China and Japan can reach enormous proportions; Bunge spoke of one of these trees …Read more »

HAMAMELIS (witch-hazel) substantive (gr. ama, at the same time; melon, fruit: fruit that reach maturity at the same time as the flowers). Botany – genus in the family Hamamelidaceae, of which we know only three or four species …Read more »

JEFFERSONIA substantive – Botany. Genus of Berberidaceae, whose typical species is a spring plant, common in the forests of the United States from New York to Wisconsin, and named in honor of Thomas Jefferson. It is popularly …Read more »

JASMINE substantive (Ar. iasmin). Botany – genus in the family Jasmineae which includes some forty species of climbing shrubs that produce fragrant flowers: Spanish jasmine.
— Flowers of this plant: double jasmine …Read more »

GENTIAN s. (lat. gentiana; after Gentius, king of Illyria who first made known the medicinal properties of this plant, in the second century BC). Bot. genus in the family Gentianaceae, which includes a large number of species of perennials plants, most of them indigenous.
The Great Yellow Gentian (gentiana lutea), common …Read more »

GUAIACUM OFFICINALE substantive Botany – Member of the zygophyllaceae family, which includes several species of American trees, whose wood is hard, heavy and resiniferous.
— Encycl. The main species of the genus Guaiacum is Guaiacum officinale, which is native to the Caribbean and Central America, and whose trunk can …Read more »