Definition of Bignoniaceae

1. Noun. Trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bignoniaceae

Big Muddy
Big Nambas
Big Pharma
Big Q
Big Rip
Big Sioux River
Big Smoke
Big Sur
Bigelow's ligament
Bigelow's septum
Bigfoot
Bigfoots
Bighorn River
Bight of Benin
Bignonia capreolata
Bignoniaceae
Bihar
Bihari
Bihu
Bikini
Bikol
Bilbao
Bilbaoan
Bilbaoans
Bilbo
Bildungsroman
Bildungsromane
Bildungsromans
Bilhah
Bill

Literary usage of Bignoniaceae

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

1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"... here forms an order distinct from bignoniaceae, including eight or nine Genera, accompanied by a beautiful figure of ..."

2. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"Anomalous secondary growth in lianas of the bignoniaceae is correlated with the vascular pattern. American Journal of Botany. 68:142-144. ..."

3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"The cambium ring of the bignoniaceae, after performing for a time its normal functions, begins, at certain points, to give off internally only a very small ..."

4. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... with 4 each ; Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae, bignoniaceae, Protea- ceae, Myrsinaceae, Rubiaceae, ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"There are various trees of the bignoniaceae planted in the Garden and many of ... An unnamed species of bignoniaceae, leafless at the time of our visit, ..."

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