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Definition of Family Lecythidaceae
1. Noun. Large tropical trees bearing large fruits with woody skins.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Myrtales, Order Myrtales, Order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales
Member holonyms: Genus Grias, Grias, Bertholletia, Genus Bertholletia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Lecythidaceae
Literary usage of Family Lecythidaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... excelsa of the family Lecythidaceae are known as Brazil nuts, and have a coat
as hard as stone; ..."
2. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The family Lecythidaceae has a species of Lecythis close to the existing Lecythis
spruceana Berg of the Amazon basin. The genus, which has about 40 existing ..."
3. Current Issues in Non-timber Forest Products Research: Proceedings of the by Manuel Ruiz Perez, J. E. M. Arnold (1996)
"Species diversity, technology, plant- animal interactions, and their correlation
with climate, as illustrated by the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae). ..."
4. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States. National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"... to the family Lecythidaceae. amid yielding the Brazil or Para nuts of commerce.
A tree 100 to 150 feet high, ..."
5. Economic plants of Porto Rico by Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins (1903)
"A large tree belonging to the family Lecythidaceae. and yielding the Brazil or
Para nuts of commerce. A tree 100 to l.~>0 feet high, distributed throughout ..."
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