Definition of Family Dipsacaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads.

Exact synonyms: Dipsacaceae
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rubiales, Rubiales
Member holonyms: Dipsacus, Genus Dipsacus, Genus Scabiosa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dipsacaceae

family Dermochelyidae
family Desmidiaceae
family Desmodontidae
family Diapensiaceae
family Diaspididae
family Dicamptodontidae
family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae
family Dilleniaceae
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae (current term)
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae

Literary usage of Family Dipsacaceae

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

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Dipsacaceae. Teasel Family. Contains about 7 genera and 140 species, natives of the Old World. They are also herbs, with the flowers in close heads ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... with two families includes The teasel family (Dipsacaceae). Example, Fuller's teasel (Dipsacus). 1232. Order Campanulales with five families, ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... with two families includes The teasel family (Dipsacaceae). Example, Fuller's teasel (Dipsacus). 1232. Order Campanulales with five families, ..."

4. Wild Flowers of New York by Homer Doliver House (1918)
"Teasel family Dipsacaceae Common or Card Teasel Dipsacus sylvestris Hudson Plate 21 sa A bristly, prickly, coarse biennial, tall and stout, 3 to 6 feet high ..."

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