Definition of Family Dilleniaceae

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dilleniaceae

family Davalliaceae
family Delphinidae
family Dematiaceae
family Dendrocolaptidae
family Dennstaedtiaceae
family Dermestidae
family Dermochelyidae
family Desmidiaceae
family Desmodontidae
family Diapensiaceae
family Diaspididae
family Dicamptodontidae
family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae
family Dilleniaceae (current term)
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae

Literary usage of Family Dilleniaceae

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

1. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Dilleniaceae: Petals present, in one whorl; sepals persistent; mostly shrubs and trees with alternate leaves. (Sp. 200. ..."

2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family DILLENIACEAE. A small unimportant family; the following used as rapid climbers, one of them, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The family Dilleniaceae contains 14 genera and about 275 existing species found on all the continents, ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Dilleniaceae. Dil- lenia Family. A group containing about 30 genera and 250 species, consisting of trees or shrubs widely ..."

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