Definition of Family dipterocarpaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins.

Exact synonyms: Dipterocarpaceae
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Dipterocarp, Genus Shorea, Shorea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dipterocarpaceae

family Desmidiaceae
family Desmodontidae
family Diapensiaceae
family Diaspididae
family Dicamptodontidae
family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae
family Dilleniaceae
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae

Literary usage of Family dipterocarpaceae

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

1. A Review of Dipterocarps: Taxonomy, Ecology and Siviculture by Simmathiri Appanah, Jennifer M. Turnbull (1998)
"In this chapter, the present understanding of biogeography and evolutionary systematics of the family Dipterocarpaceae is reviewed and whenever possible ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family dipterocarpaceae. Wing-fruit family. Contains 16 genera and over 300 species, natives exclusively of the Asiatic tropics. ..."

3. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The family Dipterocarpaceae furnishes the most important timbers, especially in the Oriental Tropics. It is a large family with numerous species of trees ..."

4. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1915)
"The most interesting and valuable single feature of the book is probably the very comprehensive treatment of the family Dipterocarpaceae. ..."

5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1907)
"In the eastern tropics the woods of the family Dipterocarpaceae are to the trade what the pines, spruces, firs, hemlocks, oaks and beeches are to the trade ..."

6. Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems: Workshop Proceedings ...by Shigeo Kobayashi by Shigeo Kobayashi (2001)
"INTRODUCTION The dipterocarp family (Dipterocarpaceae) which makes up most of the tropical forests of Southeast Asia is important ecologically and also ..."

7. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by E. Meijaard (2005)
"In Southeast Asian forests the main timber trees belong to the family Dipterocarpaceae. These trees are not a recognised food resource for primates. ..."

8. Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi by David E. Henley (2000)
"... these unusual among the world's rain forests is the dominance of a single plant family; Dipterocarpaceae, a valuable timber tree. ..."

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