Definition of Dilleniaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilleniaceae

Digital Brownshirt
Digital Era
Digitalis lutea
Digitalis purpurea
Digitaria
Digitaria ischaemum
Digitaria sanguinalis
Dii Majores
Dijkstra's algorithm
Dijon
Dilantin
Dilaudid
Dili
Dilleniaceae
Dilleniidae
Dillon
Diltheyan
Diluvialist
Diluvialists
Dima
Dime
Dimetane
Dimetapp
Dimitra
Dimitris
Dimitrovgrad
Dimmer's keratitis
Dimocarpus

Literary usage of Dilleniaceae

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"None of these families are present in the Wilcox flora, where the order is represented by the two families, the dilleniaceae and ..."

2. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1867)
"The dilleniaceae are enormously rich in bundles of raphides; and in the pith of ... The dried leaves of most dilleniaceae are rough to the touch, ..."

3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"By one, or at most two, species the Erythroxylaceae, Connaraceae, Sapindaceae, dilleniaceae, Myrsinaceae, Solanaceae, Loganiaceae, ..."

4. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1867)
"The dilleniaceae are enormously rich in bundles of raphides; and in the pith ... The wood of dilleniaceae exhibits at a certain age very remarkable fibres, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... referred by Bentham aud Hooker to the dilleniaceae, and by Eugler aud Prantl made the type of a separate family, ..."

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