Lexic.us

Definition of Family Bombacaceae

1. Noun. Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Bombacaceae

Literary usage of Family Bombacaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Bombacaceae. Silk-cotton Family. Contains 20 genera and about 100 species, widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. ..."

2. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The family Bombacaceae consists of about 20 genera and 125 existing species, all tropical and the majority American. The genus Bombax has about 50 existing ..."

3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States. National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"family Bombacaceae; a tree rising to the height of (10 or 70 feet (18 to 21 meters) and sometimes 6 feet in circumference. The wood is soft on account of ..."

4. Economic plants of Porto Rico by Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins (1903)
"family Bombacaceae; a tree rising to the height of 60 or 70 feet (18 to 21 meters) and sometimes G feet in circumference. The wood is soft on account of the ..."

5. The Useful plants of the island of Guam: With an Introductory Account of the by William Edwin Safford (1905)
"See Allium cepa and Gardens. Ceiba casearia. Same as Ceiba pentandra. Ceiba pentandra. KAPOK. PLATE XLII. family Bombacaceae. ..."

6. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture by Jamaica Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, Dept. of Agriculture, William Fawcett (1907)
"Ceiba pentandra is a member of the family Bombacaceae which is closely allied to the Malvaceae, the family to which belong the plants producing the ordinary ..."

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