Definition of Family Cornaceae

1. Noun. A rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cornaceae

family Comatulidae
family Combretaceae
family Commelinaceae
family Compositae
family Congridae
family Connaraceae
family Convallariaceae
family Convolvulaceae
family Coprinaceae
family Coraciidae
family Cordaitaceae
family Cordylidae
family Coregonidae
family Coreidae
family Corixidae
family Cornaceae (current term)
family Cortinariaceae
family Corvidae
family Corydalidae
family Corylaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae
family Coryphaenidae
family Cotingidae
family Cottidae
family Cracidae
family Cracticidae
family Crangonidae
family Cricetidae
family Crocodylidae

Literary usage of Family Cornaceae

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

1. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"DOGWOOD FAMILY (Cornaceae) Flowering Dogwood Carnus florida Flowers—(Apparently) large, white or pinkish, the four conspicuous parts simulating petals, ..."

2. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"... the ginseng (Panax) and the Dogwood family (Cornaceae), including the pepperidge or sour gum trees (Nyssa), dogwood or cornel (Cornus); and the large ..."

3. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"... Family CORNACEAE. Dogwood Family. A rather small family, chiefly of shrubs;, the dogwoods much used in massed planting. CORNUS. Dogwood. Cornel. ..."

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