Definition of Family Elaeagnaceae

1. Noun. Shrubs or small trees often armed.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Elaeagnaceae

family Discoglossidae
family Doliolidae
family Dracunculidae
family Drepanididae
family Dromaeosauridae
family Droseraceae
family Drosophilidae
family Dryopteridaceae
family Dugongidae
family Dytiscidae
family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae
family Eimeriidae
family Elaeagnaceae (current term)
family Elaeocarpaceae
family Elapidae
family Elateridae
family Electrophoridae
family Eleotridae
family Elephantidae
family Elopidae
family Embiotocidae
family Empetraceae
family Emydidae
family Endamoebidae
family Engraulidae
family Enterobacteriaceae
family Entolomataceae

Literary usage of Family Elaeagnaceae

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

1. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"... into eastern Nebraska (39) having been noticed at two stations (Cass and Saunders counties). Family ELAEAGNACEAE. ..."

2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family ELAEAGNACEAE. Oleaster Family. A rather small family of shrubs or small trees with pervasively rather than pleasingly fragrant flowers; ..."

3. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Elaeagnaceae. — Corolla always suppressed ; ovules ERECT; fruit surrounded by the persistent fleshy receptacle. \Yoody plant?, WITH SCALY HAIRS. ..."

4. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"Que. and Ont. south to Mass, and NY OLEASTER FAMILY. Elaeagnaceae. Shrubs with toothless, alternate ..."

5. Bulletin by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"OLEASTER FAMILY. ELAEAGNACEAE CANADIAN BUFFALO-BEERY. Shepherdia canadensis (L.) Nutt. This family is closely allied to the preceding and like it has but ..."

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