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Definition of Family Platanaceae
1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rosales, Rosales
Member holonyms: Genus Platanus, Platanus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Platanaceae
Literary usage of Family Platanaceae
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.) (1914)
"... or Buttonwood trees, comprise the family Platanaceae and well repay consideration.
Not only are some of them among the most attractive, but they are the ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... witch-hazel (Hamamelis), in eastern North America, and the sweet-gum (Liquidambar
styraciflua). The plane-tree family (Platanaceae), with the plane-tree ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The plane-tree family (Platanaceae), with the plane-tree, or buttonwood (Platanus
occidentalis), eastern North America. (Other species occur in western ..."
4. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Platanaceae (Plane trees): Trees with alternate leaves and monoecious
flowers in globular heads ; perianth 0 ; pistils 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; endosperm ..."
5. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family PLATANACEAE. Sycamore Family. A small family comprising a single genus of
rather few species, the common button-ball furnishing the characteristic ..."
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