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Definition of Family Dipsacaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rubiales, Rubiales
Member holonyms: Dipsacus, Genus Dipsacus, Genus Scabiosa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Dipsacaceae
Literary usage of Family Dipsacaceae
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)
"family Dipsacaceae. Teasel Family. Contains about 7 genera and 140 species,
natives of the Old World. They are also herbs, with the flowers in close heads ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... with two families includes The teasel family (Dipsacaceae). Example, Fuller's
teasel (Dipsacus). 1232. Order Campanulales with five families, ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... with two families includes The teasel family (Dipsacaceae). Example, Fuller's
teasel (Dipsacus). 1232. Order Campanulales with five families, ..."
4. Wild Flowers of New York by Homer Doliver House (1918)
"Teasel family Dipsacaceae Common or Card Teasel Dipsacus sylvestris Hudson Plate
21 sa A bristly, prickly, coarse biennial, tall and stout, 3 to 6 feet high ..."
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