Definition of Loasaceae

1. Noun. Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Loasaceae

Llew Llaw Gyffes
Llewellyn
Llewelyn
Lloyd
Lloyd's reagent
Lloyd Webber
Llullaillaco
Llyr
Lo
Lo/Ovral
LoD
LoTAG
Lo dose
Loa loa
Loafer
Loasaceae (current term)
Lobachevskian
Lobachevsky
Lobamba
Lobata
Lobelia cardinalis
Lobelia dortmanna
Lobelia inflata
Lobelia siphilitica
Lobeliaceae
Lobipes
Lobipes lobatus
Lobo
Lobo's disease
Loboa loboi

Literary usage of Loasaceae

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"2:415. tt Sepals or calyx-segments imbricated or convolute (except in Loasaceae, in which the calyx-tube is adnate to the ovary); ... Loasaceae. 2:458. II. ..."

2. Phytogeography of Nebraska: I. General Survey by Roscoe Pound, Frederic Edward Clements (1900)
"This section contains 24 genera and 44 species, distributed among the following 5 families: Loasaceae, 1 genus, 3 species; Cactaceae, 2 genera, 7 species; ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"On the leaves on Nettles, Loasaceae, ... in the species of the genus Jatropha, in Loasaceae, and in nettles, the extremity is swollen into a small head, ..."

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