Definition of Family Meliaceae

1. Noun. Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Meliaceae

family Martyniaceae
family Mastodontidae
family Mastotermitidae
family Mayacaceae
family Megachilidae
family Megadermatidae
family Megalonychidae
family Megalosauridae
family Megapodiidae
family Megatheriidae
family Melampsoraceae
family Melanthiaceae
family Melastomaceae
family Melastomataceae
family Meleagrididae
family Meliaceae (current term)
family Meliphagidae
family Meloidae
family Membracidae
family Menuridae
family Menyanthaceae
family Meropidae
family Micrococcaceae
family Microdesmidae
family Microhylidae
family Mimidae
family Mimosaceae
family Miridae
family Mniaceae

Literary usage of Family Meliaceae

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

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Meliaceae. Melia Family. Contains about 40 genera and 200 species. They are trees or shrubs differing from most of the fain- ..."

2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family MELIACEAE. Chinaberry Family. A small chiefly tropical family producing mahogany, the valuable West Indian "cedar", or cigar-box wood; ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The family Meliaceae contains about 42 genera and about 680 existing species of shrubs and trees with pinnate leaves. The vast majority are found within 30 ..."

4. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States by United States Bureau of Entomology (1918)
"family Meliaceae.) Tall ornamental trees of the Tropics; some species cultivated in California and the Gulf States. AN INSECT INJURIOUS TO TOON. ..."

5. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"... members of the Dicotyledonous family Meliaceae, and, as matter of fact, the wood of Cedrela odorata of the West Indies has long been so termed. ..."

6. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1851)
"... of the largest and most beautiful trees that ornament the banks of the Gambia and the lowlands of Cape Verde, and which belongs to the family Meliaceae. ..."

7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1851)
"... of the largest and most beautiful trees that ornament the banks of the Gambia and the lowlands of Cape Verde, and which belongs to the family Meliaceae. ..."

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