Lexic.us

Definition of Family Sapotaceae

1. Noun. Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sapotaceae

Literary usage of Family Sapotaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"(Cape Cod), and NJ west to Ont. Mich, and Ark., and south to Va. and W. Va SAPODILLA FAMILY. Sapotaceae. Trees or shrubs commonly with milky sap, ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"It is hardly distinguishable from the preceding order except in that the plants are all shrubs or trees instead of herbs. family Sapotaceae. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The family Sapotaceae comprises trees or shrubs with a milky juice and with alternate, simple, entire, mostly coriaceous, petiolate, exstipulate leaves. ..."

4. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family SAPOTACEAE. Sapodilla Family. A chiefly tropical family members of which yield gutta percha, a number of tropical fruits, chicle, etc. ..."

5. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Sapotaceae, which consists of about 445 species distributed in more than 31 genera, occurs in the tropics of the whole world, but is absent in ..."

6. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1885)
"Both belong to the family Sapotaceae, but the flowers and seeds are different. There is a figure of this one in Ruiz and Pavon, Flora Peruviana, ..."

7. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Sapotaceae. — Flowers hypogynous. Tropical trees with latex in secretory cells. OFFICINAL. ..."

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