Definition of Guttiferae

1. Noun. Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Guttiferae

Gustavus Adolphus
Gustavus Franklin Swift
Gustavus I
Gustavus II
Gustavus V
Gutenberg
Gutenbergian
Guthrie
Guthrie test
Gutierrezia
Gutierrezia microcephala
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Gutierrezia texana
Gutnish
Guttiferae (current term)
Guttiferales
Gutzeit's test
Guugu Yimidhirr
Guwahati
Guy
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes Day
Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes night
Guyana
Guyana dollar
Guyanas
Guyanese

Literary usage of Guttiferae

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

1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Guttiferae reaches its highest development between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and only the genus Hypericum is found also outside the ..."

2. Materia Medica and Pharmacy by Reynold Webb Wilcox, William Hale-White (1905)
"... asthmatic paroxysms, and pneumonia or pulmonary congestion with weak heart. GROUP LV. Guttiferae. Name of Plant. Part Used. Name of Drug. ..."

3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"... distributed from eastern Africa to India through Malaya to northern Australia. Family Guttiferae Genus CALOPHYLLUM CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM L. (Fig. 54). ..."

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