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Definition of Family Dipterocarpaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Dipterocarp, Genus Shorea, Shorea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dipterocarpaceae
Literary usage of Family Dipterocarpaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Review of Dipterocarps: Taxonomy, Ecology and Siviculture by Simmathiri Appanah, Jennifer M. Turnbull (1998)
"In this chapter, the present understanding of biogeography and evolutionary
systematics of the family Dipterocarpaceae is reviewed and whenever possible ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Dipterocarpaceae. Wing-fruit family. Contains 16 genera and over 300
species, natives exclusively of the Asiatic tropics. ..."
3. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The family Dipterocarpaceae furnishes the most important timbers, especially in
the Oriental Tropics. It is a large family with numerous species of trees ..."
4. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1915)
"The most interesting and valuable single feature of the book is probably the very
comprehensive treatment of the family Dipterocarpaceae. ..."
5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1907)
"In the eastern tropics the woods of the family Dipterocarpaceae are to the trade
what the pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, oaks and beeches are to the trade ..."
6. Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems: Workshop Proceedings ...by Shigeo Kobayashi by Shigeo Kobayashi (2001)
"INTRODUCTION The dipterocarp family (Dipterocarpaceae) which makes up most of
the tropical forests of Southeast Asia is important ecologically and also ..."
7. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by E. Meijaard (2005)
"In Southeast Asian forests the main timber trees belong to the family Dipterocarpaceae.
These trees are not a recognised food resource for primates. ..."
8. Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi by David E. Henley (2000)
"... these unusual among the world's rain forests is the dominance of a single
plant family; Dipterocarpaceae, a valuable timber tree. ..."
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