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Definition of Family Pyrolaceae
1. Noun. Evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Ericales, Order Ericales
Member holonyms: Genus Pyrola, Genus Orthilia, Orthilia, Chimaphila, Genus Chimaphila, Genus Moneses, Moneses
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pyrolaceae
Literary usage of Family Pyrolaceae
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.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Pyrolaceae. Wintergreen Family. Includes 3 genera and about 20 species,
all natives of the northern hemisphere. They are low perennial herbs, ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"... family (Pyrolaceae). Chimaphila; pipsissewa; prince's-pine; bitter winter-green;
rheumatism-weed. Small, perennial herb, native in dry, shady woods, ..."
3. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"... Family PYROLACEAE. Shin-leaf Family. A small family of evergreen herbs of no
economic value but sometimes effective as ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Pyrolaceae.—As in the preceding family, except that the placentae are VERY
FLESHY and the embryo NOT SEGMENTED. Humus- plants with or without ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The wintergreen family (Pyrolaceae), including the shin-leaf (Pyrola
elliptica). The Indian-pipe family (Monotropaceae), ..."
6. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The wintergreen family (Pyrolaceae), including the shin-leaf (Pyrola
elliptica). The Indian-pipe family (Monotropaceae), with the Indian- pipe ..."
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