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Definition of Betulaceae
1. Noun. Monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis).
Generic synonyms: Hamamelid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Fagales, Order Fagales
Member holonyms: Betula, Genus Betula, Alnus, Genus Alnus, Carpinaceae, Family Carpinaceae, Subfamily Carpinaceae, Carpinus, Genus Carpinus, Genus Ostrya, Ostrya, Genus Ostryopsis, Ostryopsis, Corylaceae, Family Corylaceae, Subfamily Corylaceae, Corylus, Genus Corylus
Derivative terms: Betulaceous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betulaceae
Literary usage of Betulaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Betulaceae. Betulaceae. BIRCH FAMILY. Wind-pollinated deciduous trees or shrubs
with alternate simple petioled leaves and deciduous stipules. ..."
2. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"Betulaceae. BIRCH FAMILY. Wind-pollinated trees or shrubs with alternate simple
petioled leaves and caducous stipules. Flowers small, borne in catkins. ..."
3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"Betulaceae Agardh. BIRCH FAMILY. Staminate flowers solitary in the axil of each
bract, without a calyx : pistillate flowers with a calyx. ..."
4. Native Trees of Kentucky: A Handbook by Sarah Webb Maury (1910)
"... BIRCH FAMILY—Betulaceae. The Birch Family consists of five divisions or genera,
found abundantly in the cooler portions of the North Temperate Zone. ..."
5. Materia medica and pharmacy by Reynold Webb Wilcox, Sir William Hale-White (1905)
"GROUP XVL Betulaceae. Name of Plant. Ik-tula lenta. Part Used. Oil from bark.
Name of Drug. Oil of Betula. ..."
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