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Definition of Family Vitaceae
1. Noun. A family of vines belonging to order Rhamnales.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Rhamnales, Rhamnales
Member holonyms: Genus Vitis, Vitis, Genus Parthenocissus, Parthenocissus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Vitaceae
Literary usage of Family Vitaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist's Rule-book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1895)
"Vitis, the grape and its allies, has some 230 species. There are two or three
other genera, and about a score of other species in the family, Vitaceae or ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"There are two families, the buckthorn (Rhamnaceae), the grape family (Vitaceae),
including the grapes (Vitis), the American ivy (Par- ..."
3. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"The leaves, known commercially as Paraguay tea (MAT£), are derived from several
sub-tropical South American species of the genus Ili-f. family Vitaceae. ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"There are two families, the buckthorn (Rhamnaceae), the grape family (Vitaceae),
including the grapes (Vitis), the American ivy (Par- ..."
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