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Definition of Family Araucariaceae
1. Noun. Tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae.
Exact synonyms: Araucaria Family, Araucariaceae
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Coniferales, Order Coniferales
Member holonyms: Wollemi Pine, Genus Araucaria, Agathis, Genus Agathis
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Coniferales, Order Coniferales
Member holonyms: Wollemi Pine, Genus Araucaria, Agathis, Genus Agathis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Araucariaceae
Literary usage of Family Araucariaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"... confined to the mountains of California, were once widely distributed in the
Northern Hemisphere. Fio. 153.— 501. The Old Pines (family Araucariaceae). ..."