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Definition of Family menispermaceae
1. Noun. Herbaceous or woody climbers.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Ranales, Order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales
Member holonyms: Genus Menispermum, Menispermum, Moonseed, Cocculus, Genus Cocculus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Menispermaceae
Literary usage of Family menispermaceae
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 menispermaceae. Moonseed Family. A group of twining herbaceous or woody
vines, comprised in about 55 genera and 150 species, natives mostly of ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... A large number of examples of this general formula are afforded by the family
Menispermaceae, in which the whorls are sometimes ..."
3. Materia medica of India and their therapeutics by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory (1903)
"... Moon-seed, or cocculus family. Menispermaceae, from mene, the moon, and sperm,
a seed, the fruit being kidney or moon (crescent) shaped. ..."
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