Definition of Mayacaceae

1. Noun. A monocotyledonous family of bog plants of order Xyridales.

Exact synonyms: Family Mayacaceae
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Commelinales, Order Commelinales, Order Xyridales, Xyridales
Member holonyms: Genus Mayaca, Mayaca

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayacaceae

May Queen
May apple
May apple root
May apples
May beetle
May blob
May blossom
May bug
May lily
May queen
May wine
May wines
Maya
Maya Lin
Mayaca
Mayacaceae
Mayaguez
Mayakovski
Mayan
Mayan language
Mayan pyramid
Mayan pyramids
Mayanist
Mayanists
Mayans
Mayaro virus
Mayas
Maybel
Mayberry
Mayberry Machiavelli

Literary usage of Mayacaceae

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"mayacaceae Walp. Ann. 3: 662. 1853. MAYACA FAMILY. Slender branching aquatic moss-like herbs, with linear sessile i-nerved entire and regular, the peduncles ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1907)
"... few ovules in each loculus of the ovary, is found in the Commelinaceae, while the mayacaceae, as a family, is closely allied to the Commelinaceae. ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"mayacaceae (MAYACA FAMILY) Moss-like aquatic plant«, densely leafy, with narrowly linear sessile pellucid leaves, ..."

4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1901)
"Eustis, N 610 ("in part," according to Small), H 1941. mayacaceae. 1312. Mayaca michauxii, S. & E. Walton county, C 2999, 5094, ..."

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