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Definition of Guttiferae
1. Noun. Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Calophyllum, Genus Calophyllum, Genus Clusia, Garcinia, Genus Garcinia, Genus Hypericum, Hypericum, Genus Mammea, Mammea, Genus Mesua, Mesua
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guttiferae
Literary usage of Guttiferae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Guttiferae reaches its highest development between the tropics of
Cancer and Capricorn, and only the genus Hypericum is found also outside the ..."
2. Materia Medica and Pharmacy by Reynold Webb Wilcox, William Hale-White (1905)
"... asthmatic paroxysms, and pneumonia or pulmonary congestion with weak heart.
GROUP LV. Guttiferae. Name of Plant. Part Used. Name of Drug. ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"... distributed from eastern Africa to India through Malaya to northern Australia.
Family Guttiferae Genus CALOPHYLLUM CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM L. (Fig. 54). ..."
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