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Definition of Empetraceae
1. Noun. Heathlike shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Empetrum, Genus Empetrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empetraceae
Literary usage of Empetraceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"empetraceae EMPETRUM. CROWBERRY E. nigrum, L. Summits of Mt. Mansfield and Camel's
Hump, Robbins. ANACARDIACEAE RHUS. ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"In Loiseleuria, and in the empetraceae and Epacridaceae, the androecium is composed
of one whorl; in the others it consists of two or more whorls. ..."
3. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"empetraceae.' Stamens 4-7; herbs with broad leaves and spiked flowers. Fam. 2.
Buxaceae. Petals present; leaves deciduous except some ..."
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