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Definition of Equisetaceae
1. Noun. Sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies.
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Equisetales, Order Equisetales
Member holonyms: Equisetum, Genus Equisetum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equisetaceae
Literary usage of Equisetaceae
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 (1913)
"... south to Florida, Arizona and Mexico. Also in tropical America. Naturalized in
lakes on Staten Island, NY Family 8. Equisetaceae Michx. Fl. Bor. ..."
2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"Equisetaceae. (Recent Species.) The leaves are in whorls, coherent in the form
of a sheath, and traversed by longitudinal veins which do not fork or anasto- ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"... regard as somewhat modified rhizoids serving the purpose of taking up water,
although they do not enter the soil. B. THE GAMETOPHYTE OF Equisetaceae. ..."
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