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Definition of Begoniaceae
1. Noun. Monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Begonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Begoniaceae
Literary usage of Begoniaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"Three winged ridges project from the inferior ovary in begoniaceae. ...
In begoniaceae also they project from the walls into the middle of the ovary, ..."
2. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"Family begoniaceae.—Flowers EPIGYNOUS, UNISEXUAL ; the male with perianth consisting
of ... The begoniaceae are succulent tropical herbs or climbing plants, ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1838)
"rarely present and then deciduous (begoniaceae); ... Stigmas not sessile, or
somewhat spiral (begoniaceae). Placenta at the parietes, or on lamellae ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1838)
"rarely present and then deciduous (begoniaceae) ... Stigmas not sessile, or
somewhat spiral (begoniaceae). ..."
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