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Definition of Ebenaceae
1. Noun. Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebenaceae
Literary usage of Ebenaceae
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, Addison Brown (1897)
"ebenaceae Vent. Tabl. 2: 443. 1779. EBONY FAMILY. Trees or shrubs with very hard
wood, alternate entire exstipulate leaves, and dioecious polygamous or ..."
2. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"... this may give a clue to the adaptability of many other kinds of woods in the
large order of ebenaceae as substitutes for the Turkish boxwood. ..."
3. Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa with Particular Reference to Its by Cornelius Alfred Moloney (1887)
"edible. — ' Silva Capensis,' Pappe, p. 26 ; ' Monograph of ebenaceae,' ...
Monograph of ebenaceae,' Hiern, p. 1 1 1. Distribution : Lower Guinea. ..."
4. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by Royal Society of South Africa (1878)
"*-fA Monograph of ebenaceae. In Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical
Society, vol. ... 208 *Notes on ebenaceae, with description of a new species. ..."
5. The Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by South African Philosophical Society (1880)
"*-fA Monograph of ebenaceae. ^e Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. XII., parti.
... 209 - *Further notes on ebenaceae, with description of a new ..."
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