Definition of Family Combretaceae

1. Noun. A family of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Myrtales.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Combretaceae

family Clathraceae
family Clavariaceae
family Cleridae
family Clethraceae
family Clinidae
family Clupeidae
family Clusiaceae
family Cobitidae
family Coccidae
family Coccinellidae
family Coerebidae
family Colchicaceae
family Colubridae
family Columbidae
family Comatulidae
family Combretaceae (current term)
family Commelinaceae
family Compositae
family Congridae
family Connaraceae
family Convallariaceae
family Convolvulaceae
family Coprinaceae
family Coraciidae
family Cordaitaceae
family Cordylidae
family Coregonidae
family Coreidae
family Corixidae
family Cornaceae

Literary usage of Family Combretaceae

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.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"The family is distributed through the tropics of both hemispheres. family Combretaceae. Myrobalan Family. Contains about 23 Fig. 172. ..."

2. Adventure Guide to Guatemala by Shelagh McNally (2003)
"The white mangrove belongs to the family Combretaceae, while the black mangrove belongs to the family Verbenaceae and is classified as Avicennia germinans. ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... of the family Combretaceae, in which two of the 4—7 unequal segments of the calyx are similarly adapted (see fig. 467 8). It is of common occurrence for ..."

4. Pocket Adventures Guatemala by Shelagh McNally (2006)
"The white mangrove belongs to the family Combretaceae, while the black mangrove belongs to the family Verbenaceae and is classified as Avicennia germinans. ..."

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