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Definition of Flacourtia family
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs.
Exact synonyms: Family Flacourtiaceae, Flacourtiaceae
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Flacourtia, Genus Flacourtia, Dovyalis, Genus Dovyalis, Genus Hydnocarpus, Genus Taraktagenos, Genus Taraktogenos, Hydnocarpus, Taraktagenos, Taraktogenos, Genus Idesia, Genus Kiggelaria, Kiggelaria, Genus Xylosma
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Flacourtia, Genus Flacourtia, Dovyalis, Genus Dovyalis, Genus Hydnocarpus, Genus Taraktagenos, Genus Taraktogenos, Hydnocarpus, Taraktagenos, Taraktogenos, Genus Idesia, Genus Kiggelaria, Kiggelaria, Genus Xylosma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flacourtia Family
Literary usage of Flacourtia family
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.) (1901)
"flacourtia family. Contains 70 genera and about 300 species, tropical shrubs or
trees of wide distribution. They^have alternate leaves, and flowers with 4-7 ..."
2. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"A genus of Chilian shrubs, belonging to the flacourtia family, having twin or
solitary alternate leaves, generally toothed and varying in form from egg- ..."
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