Definition of Family Tiliaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Tiliaceae

family Tetranychidae
family Tetraodontidae
family Tetraonidae
family Tettigoniidae
family Theaceae
family Thelephoraceae
family Thelypteridaceae
family Theophrastaceae
family Theraphosidae
family Theridiidae
family Thiobacteriaceae
family Thraupidae
family Threskiornithidae
family Thripidae
family Thymelaeaceae
family Tiliaceae (current term)
family Tilletiaceae
family Timaliidae
family Tinamidae
family Tineidae
family Tingidae
family Tipulidae
family Titanosauridae
family Todidae
family Torpedinidae
family Tortricidae
family Toxotidae
family Trachipteridae
family Tragulidae
family Trapaceae

Literary usage of Family Tiliaceae

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)
"Contains 7 genera and about 120 species, which formerly constituted one or more sections of the Linden Family (Tiliaceae), from which they may be ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The linden family (Tiliaceae). Example, the basswood or American linden (Tilia americana.) The mallow family (Malvaceae), including the hollyhock, ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The linden family (Tiliaceae). Example, the basswood or American linden (Tilia americana.) The mallow family (Malvaceae), including the hollyhock, ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"THE LINDEN The family Tiliaceae to which the Linden belongs comprises about 35 genera and upwards of 400 existing species. These are chiefly tropical, ..."

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