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Definition of Family Pandanaceae
1. Noun. Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Order Pandanales, Pandanales
Member holonyms: Genus Pandanus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pandanaceae
Literary usage of Family Pandanaceae
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)
"PANDANACEAE The family Pandanaceae is peculiar to the tropical regions of the
old world, and is represented in America by the ..."
2. Tropical Nature, and Other Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace (1878)
"These singular plants, constituting the family Pandanaceae of botanists, are very
abundant in many parts of the Eastern tropics, while they are ..."
3. Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical by Alfred Russel Wallace (1891)
"Screw-pines These singular plants, constituting the family Pandanaceae of botanists,
are very abundant in many parts of the Eastern tropics, while they are ..."