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Definition of Family Ebenaceae
1. Noun. Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Ebenaceae
Literary usage of Family Ebenaceae
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)
"Of the four families, the ebony family (Ebenaceae) contains the well-known
persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) and the storax family (Styracaceae) with the ..."
2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family EBENACEAE. Ebony Family. A chiefly tropical family yielding ebony and
other hard woods, the Japanese persimmon, etc.: scarcely of decorative use. ..."
3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Ebenaceae is almost exclusively tropical and subtropical, inhabiting
especially the eastern hemisphere. They have reached their best development ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"As the name suggests, the characteristic family is the ebony family (Ebenaceae).
It is a curious mixture of primitive and advanced characters, with frequent ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Ebenaceae. Ebony Family. Contains half a dozen genera and about 280 species,
natives of warm climates. They are trees or shrubs, characterized in ..."
6. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The family Ebenaceae is chiefly noted for furnishing the ebony of commerce.
There are about 30 species in this family which produce ebony, the best grade ..."
7. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"... in the manufacture of furniture, door frames, balustrades, finishings of
Pullman cars, and for other purposes. The family Ebenaceae is chiefly noted ..."
8. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"EBONY FAMILY. Ebenaceae Persimmon ^ s'en(^er southern tree with wide- Diospyros
spreading branches, commonly 40-60 but ..."
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