Definition of Cyatheaceae

1. Noun. Tropical tree ferns.

Exact synonyms: Family Cyatheaceae
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida
Member holonyms: Cyathea, Genus Cyathea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyatheaceae

Cuzco
Cwm Silicon
Cwmbran
Cy Young
Cyamopsis
Cyamopsis psoraloides
Cyamopsis tetragonolobus
Cyamus
Cyanobacteria
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta cristata
Cyanophyceae
Cyanophyta
Cyathea
Cyathea medullaris
Cyatheaceae (current term)
Cyathostoma
Cyathostomum
Cybele
Cyber Monday
Cyberia
Cybil
Cybill
Cycadaceae
Cycadales
Cycadofilicales
Cycadophyta
Cycadophytina
Cycadopsida
Cycas

Literary usage of Cyatheaceae

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

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"APOGAMY IN THE Cyatheaceae ALMA G. STOKEY (WITH TEN FIGURES) Since the ... of the Cyatheaceae, most of the results of which will appear in a later paper. ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"Cyatheaceae. The Cyatheaceae furnish a second example. If the prothallus is arrested in its growth in consequence of the formation of 1 May these not rather ..."

3. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"... Cyatheaceae, are with him founded chiefly on the analogies which seem to exist between his genera and a fossil form hitherto of very doubtful nature, ..."

4. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"The sporangium, however, also resembles that of the Cyatheaceae, and the strongly-developed indusium is much like that of the latter. ..."

5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1908)
"Its affinity to Dicksonia, is likewise not in question. If we sometime understand thoroughly that the Cyatheaceae constitute a ..."

6. The Structure and Life-history of the Hay-scented Fern by Henry Shoemaker Conard (1908)
"Whether our fern belongs in the Cyatheaceae or the Polypodiaceae should not be difficult to decide. The principal differences between the orders may be ..."

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