Definition of Loranthaceae

1. Noun. In some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Loranthaceae

Lophophora
Lophophora williamsii
Lophophorus
Lophosoria
Lophosoriaceae
Lopid
Lopingian
Lopressor
Lora
Lorado Taft
Lorain
Lorain's disease
Lorain-Levi dwarfism
Lorain-Levi infantilism
Lorain-Levi syndrome
Loranthaceae
Loranthus
Loranthus europaeus
Lorca
Lord's
Lord's Day
Lord's Prayer
Lord's Resistance Army
Lord's Supper
Lord's table
Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
Lord Chancellor
Lord George Gordon Byron
Lord High Chancellor
Lord Macaulay

Literary usage of Loranthaceae

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"loranthaceae D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 142. 1825. MISTLETOE FAMILY. Parasitic green shrubs or herbs, containing chlorophyll, growing on woody plants and ..."

2. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"loranthaceae. 1. REVIEW OF THE ANATOMICAL FEATURES. According to existing investigations the following anatomical characters should be kept in view for the ..."

3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"loranthaceae. i. DISTRIBUTION OF THE TROPICAL RAIN-FOREST. IN his map showing the distribution of precipitation according to the seasons, Hann subdivides ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... in a specially constructed pollen-sac, but in a ring-like swelling of B flower-axis; the mother-cells of the embryo-sacs of the loranthaceae do not ..."

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