Definition of Family Pyrolaceae

1. Noun. Evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pyrolaceae

family Psocidae
family Psophiidae
family Psychodidae
family Psyllidae
family Pteridaceae
family Pteriidae
family Pteroclididae
family Pterodactylidae
family Ptilonorhynchidae
family Pucciniaceae
family Pulicidae
family Punicaceae
family Pygopodidae
family Pyralidae
family Pyralididae
family Pyrolaceae (current term)
family Pyrrhocoridae
family Pythiaceae
family Pythonidae
family Rachycentridae
family Rafflesiaceae
family Rajidae
family Rallidae
family Ramphastidae
family Ranidae
family Ranunculaceae
family Rapateaceae
family Raphidae
family Raphidiidae
family Recurvirostridae

Literary usage of Family Pyrolaceae

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 Pyrolaceae. Wintergreen Family. Includes 3 genera and about 20 species, all natives of the northern hemisphere. They are low perennial herbs, ..."

2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"... family (Pyrolaceae). Chimaphila; pipsissewa; prince's-pine; bitter winter-green; rheumatism-weed. Small, perennial herb, native in dry, shady woods, ..."

3. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"... Family PYROLACEAE. Shin-leaf Family. A small family of evergreen herbs of no economic value but sometimes effective as ..."

4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Pyrolaceae.—As in the preceding family, except that the placentae are VERY FLESHY and the embryo NOT SEGMENTED. Humus- plants with or without ..."

5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The wintergreen family (Pyrolaceae), including the shin-leaf (Pyrola elliptica). The Indian-pipe family (Monotropaceae), ..."

6. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The wintergreen family (Pyrolaceae), including the shin-leaf (Pyrola elliptica). The Indian-pipe family (Monotropaceae), with the Indian- pipe ..."

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