Definition of Family Moraceae

1. Noun. Trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Moraceae

family Micrococcaceae
family Microdesmidae
family Microhylidae
family Mimidae
family Mimosaceae
family Miridae
family Mniaceae
family Mobulidae
family Molidae
family Molossidae
family Momotidae
family Moniliaceae
family Monocanthidae
family Monodontidae
family Monotropaceae
family Moraceae (current term)
family Morchellaceae
family Motacillidae
family Mucoraceae
family Mugilidae
family Mullidae
family Muraenidae
family Muridae
family Musaceae
family Muscicapidae
family Muscidae
family Musophagidae
family Mustelidae
family Mutillidae
family Myacidae

Literary usage of Family Moraceae

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

1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Moraceae consists of 55 genera which have a distribution similar ... The family Moraceae is an exceedingly useful one, primarily in their latex, ..."

2. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Moraceae.—Flowers unisexual, usually with four perigone leaves; stamens STRAIGHT or INFLEXED in the bud ; ovary ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Examples: the elm family (Ulmaceae. See Chapter LXII), the mulberry family (Moraceae), and the nettle family (Urticaceae). ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family Moraceae. Mulberry Family. Contains about 55 genera and nearly 1000 species, natives largely of tropical regions. 600 species belong to the single ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"... freely and the caoutchouc dries or coagulates naturally beneath the bark. This can be extracted by mechanical means. "The family Moraceae includes the ..."

6. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family MORACEAE. Mulberry Family. A family of few genera and, except for the tropical figs, few species, with milky juice: constituting the principal source ..."

7. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1908)
"... the fig. and the mulberry are placed together in one family, Moraceae, without any suggestion that there is good authority for separating these types ..."

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