Definition of Dipsacaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads.

Exact synonyms: Family Dipsacaceae
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rubiales, Rubiales
Member holonyms: Dipsacus, Genus Dipsacus, Genus Scabiosa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipsacaceae

Diplococcus pneumoniae
Diplogonoporus
Diplopterygium
Diplopterygium longissimum
Diplotaxis
Diplotaxis erucoides
Diplotaxis muralis
Diplotaxis tenuifolia
Dipodidae
Dipodomys ordi
Dipodomys phillipsii
Dipogon
Dipogon lignosus
Dipper
Dippers
Dipsacaceae (current term)
Dipsacus
Dipsacus fullonum
Dipsacus sativus
Dipsacus sylvestris
Dipsosaurus
Dipsosaurus dorsalis
Diptera
Dipterocarpaceae
Dipteronia
Dipteryx
Dipteryx odorata
Dipu
Dipus
Dipus sagitta

Literary usage of Dipsacaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"Family Dipsacaceae. Teasel Family. Contains about 7 genera and 140 species, ... The Dipsacaceae and Valerianaceae are held by some authors to constitute a ..."

2. Untersuchungen über Chlorophyll: Pioneer History of the Territorial and by State Library of Iowa, Johnson Brigham, Richard Willstätter, Arthur Stoll, Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm-institut für chemie (1913)
"... Bignoniaceae, Acanthaceae, Plantaginaceae, Rubiaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Valerianaceae, Dipsacaceae, Cucurbita- ceae, Campanulaceae, Compositae. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"3 : 284. Ovary i-celled; flowers densely capitate, involúcrate. Fam. 40. Dipsacaceae. 3: 288. II. Anthers united (except in Campanula and ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... the lower spatulate ; corolla 12 mm. long, rose-tinged or purplish. — Rocky places, Mo. and Ark. Dipsacaceae (TEASEL FAMILT) Herbs, with opposite or ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"When the perianth (p) expands, the filaments are thrown out with force as at a, ao as to scatter the pollen, polyhedral in Dipsacaceae and Compositae; ..."

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