Definition of Family Pandanaceae

1. Noun. Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus.

Exact synonyms: Pandanaceae, Screw-pine Family
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Order Pandanales, Pandanales
Member holonyms: Genus Pandanus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pandanaceae

family Osmeridae
family Osmundaceae
family Ostraciidae
family Ostraciontidae
family Ostreidae
family Otariidae
family Otididae
family Oxalidaceae
family Oxyuridae
family Paeoniaceae
family Paguridae
family Palaemonidae
family Palinuridae
family Palmaceae
family Palmae
family Pandanaceae (current term)
family Pandionidae
family Panorpidae
family Papaveraceae
family Papilionacea
family Paradisaeidae
family Paridae
family Parkeriaceae
family Parmeliaceae
family Parulidae
family Patellidae
family Pectinidae
family Pedaliaceae

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 ..."

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