Definition of Family equisetaceae

1. Noun. Sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies.

Exact synonyms: Equisetaceae, Horsetail Family
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Equisetales, Order Equisetales
Member holonyms: Equisetum, Genus Equisetum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Equisetaceae

family Elephantidae
family Elopidae
family Embiotocidae
family Empetraceae
family Emydidae
family Endamoebidae
family Engraulidae
family Enterobacteriaceae
family Entolomataceae
family Entomophthoraceae
family Epacridaceae
family Ephedraceae
family Ephemeridae
family Ephippidae
family Equidae
family Equisetaceae
family Erethizontidae
family Ericaceae
family Erinaceidae
family Eriocaulaceae
family Erysiphaceae
family Erythroxylaceae
family Eschrichtiidae
family Esocidae
family Euglenaceae
family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae
family Fagaceae

Literary usage of Family equisetaceae

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

1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The single order contains a single family, Equisetaceae, among the living forms, and but a single genus, Equisetum. There are about twenty-four species, ..."

2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"... 6 to 18 inches high, found in swamps and marshes Equisetum hyemale L. Horsetail family ( Equisetaceae ). Common scouring-rush ; horsetail; shave-grass. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1890)
"Equisetum species, family Equisetaceae, of which the native name is "Cola de Caballo ;" a diuretic and astringent plant, used in cases of gonor- ..."

4. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Family. Equisetaceae. Genus. Equisetum. Species. (eg) arvense. B. Habitat: 1. The field horsetail (E. arvense), is common along railway embankments, ..."

5. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"Occurrence.—PATAPSCO FORMATION. Vinegar Hill, Maryland. Collection.—Johns Hopkins University. Order EQUISETALES Family EQUISETACEAE Genus ..."

6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... capable of identification with those of these same existing plants, that they must be regarded as forming an extinct genus of the family Equisetaceae. ..."

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