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Definition of Family Meliaceae
1. Noun. Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Geraniales, Order Geraniales
Member holonyms: Mahogany, Mahogany Tree, Genus Melia, Melia, Azadirachta, Genus Azadirachta, Cedrela, Genus Cedrela, Chloroxylon, Genus Chloroxylon, Entandrophragma, Genus Entandrophragma, Flindersia, Genus Flindersia, Genus Khaya, Khaya, Genus Lansium, Genus Lovoa, Lovoa, Genus Swietinia, Swietinia, Genus Toona, Toona, Genus Turreae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Meliaceae
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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