Definition of Family Theaceae

1. Noun. A family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales.

Exact synonyms: Tea Family, Theaceae
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Camellia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Theaceae

family Tecophilaeacea
family Teiidae
family Tenebrionidae
family Tenrecidae
family Tenthredinidae
family Terebellidae
family Teredinidae
family Termitidae
family Testudinidae
family Tethyidae
family Tetragoniaceae
family Tetranychidae
family Tetraodontidae
family Tetraonidae
family Tettigoniidae
family Theaceae (current term)
family Thelephoraceae
family Thelypteridaceae
family Theophrastaceae
family Theraphosidae
family Theridiidae
family Thiobacteriaceae
family Thraupidae
family Threskiornithidae
family Thripidae
family Thymelaeaceae
family Tiliaceae
family Tilletiaceae
family Timaliidae
family Tinamidae

Literary usage of Family Theaceae

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.) (1901)
"family Theaceae. Tea or Camellia Family. Contains about 16 genera and 160 species, rather widely distributed. They are trees or shrubs with large regular ..."

2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Theaceae, with its 16 genera and about 174 species, is rather confined to the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. ..."

3. Botany for High Schhools by George Francis Atkinson (1912)
"The tea family (Theaceae) is represented by the loblolly bay, or tan bay (Gordonia lasianthus), a tree with coriaceous evergreen leaves, and large, white, ..."

4. Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North ...by Sue Ann Prince by Sue Ann Prince (2003)
"BDC Flowers (family Theaceae?), nd Ink, watercolor with white bodycolor, and graphite, 13 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. BDC Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) ..."

5. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States. National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"(Stahl, 6: 219.) Cleyera albopunctata. family Theaceae: front vicinity of Maricas. Clidemia hirta. ..."

6. Economic plants of Porto Rico by Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins (1903)
"Bello reports the common name " jasmin hediondo." (Stahl, 6: 219.) Cleyera albopunctata. family Theaceae; from vicinity of Maricas. ..."

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