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Definition of Dioscoreaceae
1. Noun. Yams.
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Member holonyms: Dioscorea, Genus Dioscorea, Genus Tamus, Tamus
Group relationships: Liliales, Order Liliales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioscoreaceae
Literary usage of Dioscoreaceae
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, Addison Brown (1896)
"... as long as the persistent style, shorter than the perianth. Pine barren bogs,
New Jersey to Florida. June-Aug. Family 24. Dioscoreaceae Lindl. Nat. ..."
2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"... Dioscoreaceae. Yam Family. DIOSCOREA L. 8p. PL 2 :1032. 1753. About 150 species,
perennial climbers, of the wanner parts of I lie globe, ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"... the leafy shoots with their two-ranked leaves are thus strongly flattened.
Such leaves are termed "Equitant." Fam. 5. Dioscoreaceae. — The Dioscoreaceae ..."
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