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Definition of Family Myricaceae
1. Noun. Constituting the order Myricales.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Myricales, Order Myricales
Member holonyms: Genus Myrica, Myrica, Comptonia, Genus Comptonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Myricaceae
Literary usage of Family Myricaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family MYRICACEAE. Bayberry Family. A small family of shrubs or small trees with
aromatic foliage, the wax which encrusts the fruit of some species used in ..."
2. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"... cerifera L. (family Myricaceae) yield 0.021 pc of volatile oil,2 of greenish
color, and very pleasant aromatic, spicy odor. Sp. gr. 0.886; «D = —5°3'. ..."
3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"SWEET GALE FAMILY. Myricaceae. Shrubs with aromatic, sweet-scented, alternate-growing
leaves, almost leathery in texture. The flowers in short, ..."
4. Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States, 1785-1807 by James Alexander Robertson, Paul Alliot (1910)
"Its scientific name is Myrica cerifera and it belongs to the sweet-gale
family (Myricaceae). Among the products natural to Louisiana, that of the wax tree ..."
5. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"... Washington state (Torrey 1923) and from the Specimen Creek Flora of Yellowstone
National Park (Chadwick and Yama- moto, 1984). 2. family Myricaceae ChM ..."
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