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Definition of Family Dilleniaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Dillenia, Genus Hibbertia, Hibbertia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dilleniaceae
Literary usage of Family Dilleniaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Dilleniaceae: Petals present, in one whorl; sepals persistent; mostly
shrubs and trees with alternate leaves. (Sp. 200. ..."
2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family DILLENIACEAE. A small unimportant family; the following used as rapid
climbers, one of them, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The family Dilleniaceae contains 14 genera and about 275 existing species found
on all the continents, ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Dilleniaceae. Dil- lenia Family. A group containing about 30 genera and
250 species, consisting of trees or shrubs widely ..."
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