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Definition of Capparidaceae
1. Noun. A dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Papaverales, Order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, Rhoeadales
Member holonyms: Capparis, Genus Capparis, Cleome, Genus Cleome, Crateva, Genus Crateva, Genus Polanisia, Polanisia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capparidaceae
Literary usage of Capparidaceae
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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Capparidaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 61. 1836. CAPER FAMILY. Herbs or shrubs (rarely
trees), with a watery sap, alternate or very rarely opposite, ..."
2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"... belonging to the Family of the Capparidaceae. ... A TREE belonging to the
Natural Order Capparidaceae, growing in the arid assert plain at the ..."
3. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"Capparidaceae. CAPER FAMILY POLANISIA P. graveolens, Raf. Sandy shores of Lake
Champlain ; common. SARRACENIACEAE. PITCHER PLANT FAMILY SARRACENIA S. ..."
4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"... Capparidaceae, Resedaceae, and Moringa- ceae, together containing about 2615
species, the large families being Cruciferae with 1860 species, ..."
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