Definition of Cabombaceae

1. Noun. In some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabombaceae

Cabellian
Cabernet
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon grape
Cabernet Sauvignons
Cabinda
Cabindan
Cabindans
Cablegate
Cablinasian
Cablinasians
Caboc
Cabomba
Cabomba caroliniana
Cabombaceae
Cabot
Cabot's ring bodies
Cabot-Locke murmur
Cabriole leg
Cabriole legs
Cacajao
Cacalia
Cacalia javanica
Cacalia lutea
Cacatua
Cacatua galerita
Cachi

Literary usage of Cabombaceae

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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"cabombaceae A. Gray, Ann. Lyc. NY 4: 46. 1837. WATER-SHIELD FAMILY. Aquatic perennial herbs, with rootstocks, mucilage-coated stems, floating or immersed ..."

2. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York by N.Y. Lyceum of Natural History (New York, New York Academy of Sciences (1848)
"... chiefly attributable to the entirely submersed habit of the genus. If a comparison be next instituted between Ceratophyllum and the order cabombaceae or ..."

3. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"cabombaceae. p. 11. Carpels united in a several-celled ovary. NYMPHAEACEAE. p. 12. GROUP 3. Ovary compound, with parietal placentae. ..."

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