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Definition of Dilleniaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Dillenia, Genus Hibbertia, Hibbertia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilleniaceae
Literary usage of Dilleniaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"None of these families are present in the Wilcox flora, where the order is
represented by the two families, the Dilleniaceae and ..."
2. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1867)
"The Dilleniaceae are enormously rich in bundles of raphides; and in the pith of
... The dried leaves of most Dilleniaceae are rough to the touch, ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"By one, or at most two, species the Erythroxylaceae, Connaraceae, Sapindaceae,
Dilleniaceae, Myrsinaceae, Solanaceae, Loganiaceae, ..."
4. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1867)
"The Dilleniaceae are enormously rich in bundles of raphides; and in the pith ...
The wood of Dilleniaceae exhibits at a certain age very remarkable fibres, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... referred by Bentham aud Hooker to the Dilleniaceae, and by Eugler aud Prantl
made the type of a separate family, ..."
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