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Definition of Family Droseraceae
1. Noun. A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sarraceniales, Sarraceniales
Member holonyms: Drosera, Genus Drosera, Dionaea, Genus Dionaea, Aldrovanda, Genus Aldrovanda, Drosophyllum, Genus Drosophyllum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Droseraceae
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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