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Definition of Ceratophyllaceae
1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Ranales, Order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales
Member holonyms: Ceratophyllum, Genus Ceratophyllum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceratophyllaceae
Literary usage of Ceratophyllaceae
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)
"Ceratophyllaceae A. Gray, Ann. Lye. NY 4: 41. 1837. HORN WORT FAMILY. Submerged
aquatics, with slender widely branching stems, and verticillate leaves, ..."
2. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York by N.Y. Lyceum of Natural History (New York, New York Academy of Sciences (1848)
"... as in Ceratophyllaceae. The principal difference between the two orders, so
far as respects the structure of the ovule and seed, consists, therefore, ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"... come the rest of the dicotyledons, and also the monocotyledons, the latter
coming from the region of the Ceratophyllaceae and Ranunculaceae.— CHARLES]. ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Seed inflorescence. Herbs with tough bark, mostly opposite and serrate leaves,
and usually cymose ax 90. Ceratophyllaceae, p. 78. ..."
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