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Definition of Cannaceae
1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Canna.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Musales, Order Musales
Member holonyms: Genus Canna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannaceae
Literary usage of Cannaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of by Arthur Henfrey, Thomas Henry Huxley (1853)
"Those also who regard the anther of the cannaceae as standing in front of a
lateral inner petal, must make an exception to the rule that one of the three ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"apparatus for transferring the reserve starch of the perisperm to the embryo.
He suggests that in several genera of cannaceae, ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"In several other genera, of the cannaceae, Polygonaceae, Phytolaccaceae,
Caryophyllaceae, and others, a thin layer of endosperm separates perisperm and ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1907)
"Beginning with Musaceae the series passes through Zingiberaceae and cannaceae to
the Marantaceae, and the botanist finds a strongly marked parallelism of ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1912)
"cannaceae Canna LC sp. ALBEMARLE ISL. : Villamil, occasional at 700 ft.
INDEFATIGABLE ISL. : Academy Bay, ace. to /. 5". Hunter. JAMES ISL. ..."
6. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"cannaceae.—Large-leaved herbs ; often in cultivation. Flowers asymmetrical (Fig.
827). Only one half stamen fertile (ie anther with only one theca), ..."
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