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Definition of Family rhamnaceae
1. Noun. Trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Rhamnales, Rhamnales
Member holonyms: Genus Rhamnus, Rhamnus, Colubrina, Genus Colubrina, Genus Ziziphus, Ziziphus, Genus Paliurus, Paliurus, Genus Pomaderris, Pomaderris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Rhamnaceae
Literary usage of Family rhamnaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"BUCKTHORN FAMILY (Rhamnaceae) New Jersey Tea; Wild Snowball; Red-root Ceanothus
americanus Flowers—Small, white, on white pedicels, crowded in dense, ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"Family RHAMNACEAE. Buckthorn (Rhamnus lanceolata Pursh) is common in the Missouri
forests, from which it has moved up along the eastern border of the state ..."
3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"Family RHAMNACEAE. Buckthorn (Rhamnus lanceolata Pursh) is common in the Missouri
forests, from which it has moved up along the eastern border of the state ..."
4. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family RHAMNACEAE. Buckthorn Family. A rather small family, yielding the drug
cascara sagrada; the fruit of one Zizyphus is supposed to be the intoxicating ..."
5. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... BUCKTHORN FAMILY. Rhamnaceae. Mostly shrubs, rarely small trees often with
thorns, and commonly with alternate-growing, toothed leaves; flowers small, ..."
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