Lexic.us

Definition of Tamaricaceae

1. Noun. Family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamaricaceae

Literary usage of Tamaricaceae

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

1. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1902)
"I : 161) it was made a tribe of Tamaricaceae, and the same treatment was accorded to it by Engler and Prantl (Nat. Pfl. 3": 298). Subsequently Engler (Nat. ..."

2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"[The occurrence of crystalline calcium sulphate in Tamaricaceae. ... Similar crystals occur in the following genera of Tamaricaceae: ..."

3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"The Chenopodiaceae predominate in the desert flora, especially on extensive saline tracts. A prominent part is also played by Tamaricaceae as shrubs ..."

4. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... LKHenry W Tamaricaceae • Tamarix gallica L. French tamarisk Deciduous shrub Cultivated and occasionally persisting at old garden sites. ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... LKHenry W Tamaricaceae • Tamarix gallica L. French tamarisk Deciduous shrub Cultivated and occasionally persisting at old garden sites. ..."

6. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family Tamaricaceae. Tamarisk Family. A very small family of little use aside from landscape planting. TAMARIX. Tamarisk. Salt Cedar. ..."

7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"For the medical and dietetic properties of the tamarind see TAMARINDS. TAM ARIX, the name of a genus of plants, Uie t ype of tb« natural order Tamaricaceae. ..."

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