Definition of Family Magnoliaceae

1. Noun. Subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Magnoliaceae

family Lucanidae
family Lutjanidae
family Luvaridae
family Lycaenidae
family Lycoperdaceae
family Lycopodiaceae
family Lycosidae
family Lygaeidae
family Lymantriidae
family Lythraceae
family Machilidae
family Macropodidae
family Macrorhamphosidae
family Macrouridae
family Macruridae
family Magnoliaceae (current term)
family Majidae
family Malacanthidae
family Malpighiaceae
family Malvaceae
family Mammutidae
family Manidae
family Manteidae
family Mantidae
family Mantispidae
family Marantaceae
family Marattiaceae
family Marchantiaceae
family Marsileaceae
family Martyniaceae

Literary usage of Family Magnoliaceae

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

1. Native Trees of Kentucky: A Handbook by Sarah Webb Maury (1910)
"... MAGNOLIA FAMILY—Magnoliaceae. Magnolias are represented in Kentucky by two genera: A. Genus Liriodendron—Tulip Tree. B. Genus Magnolia—Magnolias. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"MAGNOLIA FAMILY. MAGNOLIACEAE J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam. 2: 74. MAGNOLIA FAMILY. 1805. Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire or rarely lobed leaves, ..."

3. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Magnoliaceae (Magnolias) : Petals present, in one to many whorls ; receptacle usually elongated ; shrubs and trees with alternate leaves and usually ..."

4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"Magnolia acuminata L. Magnolia family ( Magnoliaceae >. Cucumber-tree; mountain-magnolia; blue magnolia. Native tree, 60 to 80 feet in height, occurring in ..."

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