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Definition of Sandalwood family

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandalwood Family

Literary usage of Sandalwood 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)
"1810 sandalwood family. Herbs or shrubs (some exotic genera trees), with alternate or opposite entire exstipulate leaves. Flowers clustered or solitary, ..."

2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... at the direct instigation of the gods being believed to have first deposited its seeds on the branches of trees. THE sandalwood family. ..."

3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sandalwood family. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with entire leaves and a 4—5-cleft calyx valvate in the bud and its tube joined to the 1-cell e I ovary, ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"1810 sandalwood family. Herbs or shrubs (some exotic genera trees), with alternate or opposite entire exstipulate leaves. Flowers clustered or solitary, ..."

5. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... at the direct instigation of the gods being believed to have first deposited its seeds on the branches of trees. THE sandalwood family. ..."

6. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sandalwood family. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with entire leaves and a 4—5-cleft calyx valvate in the bud and its tube joined to the 1-cell e I ovary, ..."

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