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Definition of Begonia family
1. Noun. Monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Begonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Begonia Family
Literary usage of Begonia family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... begonia family. Somewhat succulent, herbaceous or more or less woody- stemmed,
mostly perennial house plants, with alternate and unequal-sided leaves, ..."
2. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... begonia family. Somewhat succulent, herbaceous or more or less woody- stemmed,
mostly perennial house plants, with alternate and unequal-sided leaves, ..."
3. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"THE begonia family.—Begonia'cece. Begonias are under-shrubby, rather succulent,
and moisture-loving plants, natives of the East and West Indies, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"There are four sections of the begonia family, and as each requires somewhat
different directions for their cultivation, it is desirable to treat them ..."
5. The Propagation of Plants: Giving the Principles which Govern the by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1887)
"... (begonia family).—A small family, and only one genus in cultivation, and that
the Begonia; but of this there are at least three hundred species and an ..."
6. Gardening (1905)
"... and the average grower thinks that it ought to thrive under the same conditions
as the rest of the begonia family. You certainly see better plants ..."
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