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Definition of Family Piperaceae
1. Noun. Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Piperales, Piperales
Member holonyms: Genus Piper, Piper, Genus Peperomia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Piperaceae
Literary usage of Family Piperaceae
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 Piperaceae (Peppers) : Herbs, shrubs, and trees with alternate (or opposite)
leaves ; flowers perfect or ..."
2. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Piperaceae. — Flowers NAKED, typically trimerous, but usually REDUCED ;
fruit DRUPACEOUS ; seeds with PERISPERM. Herbs and shrubs with stipulate or ..."
3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"... Cayo Sabinal, Camaguey (Shafer Family PIPERACEAE Peperomia similis Britton, sp.
nov. Stem rather slender, creeping, sparingly branched, ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family Piperaceae. Pepper Family. Nine genera and over 1000 species, chiefly of
tropical America; a few species of ..."
5. Practical Pharmacy for Pharmacists and Physicians: A Text Book for Students by Birdsey Lucius Maltbie (1910)
"Pepper. (Black Pepper). The dried, unripe fruit of piper nigrum. Family, piperaceae.
Habitat, India. Principal constituents: An aromatic volatile oil ..."
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