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Definition of Caper family
1. Noun. A dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Papaverales, Order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, Rhoeadales
Member holonyms: Capparis, Genus Capparis, Cleome, Genus Cleome, Crateva, Genus Crateva, Genus Polanisia, Polanisia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caper Family
Literary usage of Caper family
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 (1897)
"caper family. Herbs or shrubs (rarely trees), with a watery sap, alternate or
very rarely opposite, simple or palmately compound leaves and axillary or ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... (caper family.) Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with acrid watery juice, alternate,
simple or palmately compound leaves, ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"BEAX caper family Herbs, shrubs, or tree«, with opposite, pinnately compound,
dotless, stipulate leaves, symmetrical 4- or 5-merous flowers solitary on ..."
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