Definition of Order Ebenales

1. Noun. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Ebenales

order Cydippea
order Cydippida
order Cydippidea
order Cypriniformes
order Decapoda
order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales (current term)
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales
order Eubryales
order Euphausiacea
order Eurotiales

Literary usage of Order Ebenales

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

1. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, Upper portion of the ovaries united. Order EBENALES. or fewer ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"... in the existing flora has its oldest known fossil occurrences in the basal Upper Cretaceous of North America. The order Ebenales includes the families ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order Ebenales.—Of the four families, the ebony family (Ebenaceae) contains the well-known persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) and the storax family ..."

4. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"... 20- to 28-celled ; ovules solitary; anthers dehiscing by a slit. (Sp. 4.) SUB-order Ebenales : Flowers regular, perfect, ..."

5. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1916)
"Lagrange formation (in beds of Wilcox age), Puryear, Henry County, Tenn. (collected by EW Berry). Collection.—US National Museum. Order EBENALES. ..."

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