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Definition of Cabombaceae
1. Noun. In some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Family Nymphaeaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Water-lily Family
Member holonyms: Cabomba, Genus Cabomba, Brasenia, Genus Brasenia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabombaceae
Literary usage of Cabombaceae
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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"cabombaceae A. Gray, Ann. Lyc. NY 4: 46. 1837. WATER-SHIELD FAMILY. Aquatic perennial
herbs, with rootstocks, mucilage-coated stems, floating or immersed ..."
2. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York by N.Y. Lyceum of Natural History (New York, New York Academy of Sciences (1848)
"... chiefly attributable to the entirely submersed habit of the genus. If a
comparison be next instituted between Ceratophyllum and the order cabombaceae or ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Herborizing Companion for the Young Botanists of Chester by William Darlington (1853)
"cabombaceae. p. 11. Carpels united in a several-celled ovary. NYMPHAEACEAE. p.
12. GROUP 3. Ovary compound, with parietal placentae. ..."
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