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Definition of Family Moraceae
1. Noun. Trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Urticales, Urticales
Member holonyms: Genus Morus, Morus, Genus Maclura, Maclura, Artocarpus, Genus Artocarpus, Ficus, Genus Ficus, Broussonetia, Genus Broussonetia
Derivative terms: Moraceous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Moraceae
Literary usage of Family Moraceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Moraceae consists of 55 genera which have a distribution similar ...
The family Moraceae is an exceedingly useful one, primarily in their latex, ..."
2. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Moraceae.—Flowers unisexual, usually with four perigone leaves; stamens
STRAIGHT or INFLEXED in the bud ; ovary ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Examples: the elm family (Ulmaceae. See Chapter LXII),
the mulberry family (Moraceae), and the nettle family (Urticaceae). ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family Moraceae. Mulberry Family. Contains about 55 genera and nearly 1000 species,
natives largely of tropical regions. 600 species belong to the single ..."
5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"... freely and the caoutchouc dries or coagulates naturally beneath the bark.
This can be extracted by mechanical means. "The family Moraceae includes the ..."
6. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family MORACEAE. Mulberry Family. A family of few genera and, except for the
tropical figs, few species, with milky juice: constituting the principal source ..."
7. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1908)
"... the fig. and the mulberry are placed together in one family, Moraceae, without
any suggestion that there is good authority for separating these types ..."
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