Definition of Gnetaceae

1. Noun. Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum.

Exact synonyms: Family Gnetaceae
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Gnetales, Order Gnetales
Member holonyms: Genus Gnetum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnetaceae

Glynis
Gm allotypes
Gm antigens
Gm type
Gmailer
Gmailers
Gmelin's test
GnRH
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Gnaphalium sylvaticum
Gnat
Gnathostomata
Gnawa
Gnawas
Gnetaceae (current term)
Gnetales
Gnetophyta
Gnetophytina
Gnetopsida
Gnetum gnemon
Gnostic
Gnosticism
Gnostics
GoF
GoS
Go Fish
Goa
Goa powder
Goa powders

Literary usage of Gnetaceae

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"We do not know whether this varying behaviour of the neck-portion has any biological significance. Gnetaceae. The Gnetaceae exhibit peculiar and remarkable ..."

2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... premising, however, a brief sketch of the general floral structure.1 505. In Gnetaceae, Gymnosperms jind Angiosperms almost come together. ..."

3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"Family Gnetaceae Genus GNETUM GNETUM GNEMON L. BAGO. A description of this species and its local names are given in the bulletin on fibers. ..."

4. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Gnetaceae. On the Embryology of the Gnetaceae, see the paper by Bower, Q^JMS, 1882, of which the following is a brief abstract:— It ..."

5. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"The Cycads are undoubtedly related to the Ferns, but the origin of the Conifers and Gnetaceae is extremely uncertain. There is evidence that the Conifers ..."

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