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Definition of Cyrilla family
1. Noun. Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia.
Generic synonyms: Dicot, Dicotyledon, Exogen, Magnoliopsid
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Genus Cyrilla, Cliftonia, Genus Cliftonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyrilla Family
Literary usage of Cyrilla family
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)
"cyrilla family. 1847. Glabrous shrubs, or small trees, with simple entire thick
alternate exstipulate leaves, long-persistent or evergreen, ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... pedicels become elongated and very feathery. From the orange-yellow wood of
our .species a dye, rich in colour, is extracted. THE cyrilla family. ..."
3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"(cyrilla family.) Trees or shrubs, with alternate evergreen leaves, .without stipules,
and perfect white flowers in lateral or terminal racemes ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"—Flowers and fruit much as in the cultivated SMOKE-THEE (Ji. Cotinus L.), which
is an occasional escape within our range. CYRILLACEAE (cyrilla family) ..."
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