Definition of Family Droseraceae

1. Noun. A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Droseraceae

family Dicranaceae
family Didelphidae
family Dilleniaceae
family Dinornithidae
family Diodontidae
family Diomedeidae
family Dioscoreaceae
family Dipodidae
family Dipsacaceae
family Dipterocarpaceae
family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae (current term)
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae
family Eimeriidae
family Elaeagnaceae
family Elaeocarpaceae
family Elapidae
family Elateridae
family Electrophoridae

Literary usage of Family Droseraceae

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

1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: Sarra- cenia purpurea, the pitcher-plant, in peat-bogs, northern and eastern North America. The sundew family (Droseraceae). ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: Sarra- cenia purpurea, the pitcher-plant, in peat-bogs, northern and eastern North America. The sundew family (Droseraceae). ..."

3. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"SUNDEW FAMILY (Droseraceae) Round-leaved Sundew; Dew-plant Drosera rotundifolia Flowers—Small, white, growing in a 1-sided, curved raceme of buds chiefly. ..."

4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Droseraceae.—Flowers actinomorphic, with five stamens ; ovary usually unilocular, with parietal placentae, STYLE DIVIDED. Fruit a capsule; seeds with ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Droseraceae. Sundew Family. Another interesting family, with a somewhat peculiar geographical distribution. There are six genera; Drosera, ..."

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