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Definition of Mistletoe family
1. Noun. In some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Santalales, Santalales
Member holonyms: Genus Viscum, Viscum, Genus Phoradendron, Phoradendron
2. Noun. In some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family, Parasitic Plant
Group relationships: Order Santalales, Santalales
Member holonyms: Genus Loranthus, Loranthus, Arceuthobium, Genus Arceuthobium, Genus Nuytsia, Nuytsia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistletoe Family
Literary usage of Mistletoe family
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)
"mistletoe family. Parasitic green shrubs or herbs, containing chlorophyll, growing
on woody plants and absorbing food from their sap 'through specialized ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"mistletoe family. Fig. 17. Herbs or subshrubs, parasites or half- parasites, with
or without chlorophyll, rarely rooted in the earth: leaves usually ..."
3. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"... causing much damage in the forest, especially west of the Rocky Monti- tains.1 In
Europe members of the mistletoe family are important tree parasites. i ..."
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