Definition of Salicaceae

1. Noun. Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus.

Exact synonyms: Family Salicaceae, Willow Family
Generic synonyms: Hamamelid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Salicales, Salicales
Member holonyms: Genus Salix, Salix, Genus Populus, Populus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salicaceae

Salamandra maculosa
Salamandra salamandra
Sale
Salekhard
Salem
Salento
Salerno
Salesian
Salesians
Salford
Salian
Salian Frank
Salians
Salic
Salic law
Salicaceae
Salicales
Salicornia
Salicornia europaea
Salientia
Salii
Salim
Salina
Salinan
Salinans
Salinas
Salinastroika
Salinem fever
Salinem infection
Salinger

Literary usage of Salicaceae

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

1. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"salicaceae. WILLOW FAMILY. Trees or shrubs of rapid growth, light wood and bitter bark. Leaves simple and alternate, with stipules. ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... Myricaceae, salicaceae, Urticaceae, Piperaceae and Chenopodiaceae. The dicotyledonous plants yield by far the greatest number of volatile oils, ..."

3. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"salicaceae. WILLOW FAMILY POPULUS. POPLAR P. ALBA, L. White Poplar. Frequently spreading from the roots or escaped from cultivation. ..."

4. Lessons in Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"The willow family (salicaceae).—The willows represent a very interesting group of plants in which the Fig. 217. Spray of willow leaves, pistillate and ..."

5. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"salicaceae. WILLOW FAMILY. Trees or shrubs of rapid growth, light wood and bitter bark. Leaves simple and alternate, with stipules. ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... Myricaceae, salicaceae, Urticaceae, Piperaceae and Chenopodiaceae. The dicotyledonous plants yield by far the greatest number of volatile oils, ..."

7. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"salicaceae. WILLOW FAMILY POPULUS. POPLAR P. ALBA, L. White Poplar. Frequently spreading from the roots or escaped from cultivation. ..."

8. Lessons in Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"The willow family (salicaceae).—The willows represent a very interesting group of plants in which the Fig. 217. Spray of willow leaves, pistillate and ..."

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