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Definition of Tetragoniaceae
1. Noun. Succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, Order Caryophyllales, Order-chenopodiales
Member holonyms: Carpobrotus, Genus Carpobrotus, Dorotheanthus, Genus Dorotheanthus, Genus Lithops, Genus Mesembryanthemum, Mesembryanthemum, Genus Molluga, Molluga, Genus Pleiospilos, Pleiospilos, Genus Tetragonia, Tetragonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetragoniaceae
Literary usage of Tetragoniaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1865)
"... and Tetragoniaceae are so exactly alike as to add another link to the affinity
so admirably noticed by Lindley between these two orders. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1853)
"... erect or pressed upwards by the ovary remaining contracted below while its
upper part expands ; this is distinctly shown to take place in Tetragoniaceae ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"Nyctaginaceae * Abronia latifolia Esch., Yellow Sand Verbena. Forming large
prostrate mats, often one meter across. Tetragoniaceae Mesembryanthemum ..."
4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Tetragoniaceae. 261 Stamens as many as the perianth-members and opposite them,
or twice as many ; water planta. Water plants, with whorled leaves. 92. ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1838)
"... free from the calyx (exc. some Chenopodiaceae), more or less connate with each
other (exc. some Phytolaccaceae, some Tetragoniaceae). ..."
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