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Definition of Sapodilla family
1. Noun. Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Achras, Genus Achras, Bumelia, Genus Bumelia, Calocarpum, Genus Calocarpum, Chrysophyllum, Genus Chrysophyllum, Genus Manilkara, Manilkara, Genus Palaquium, Palaquium, Genus Payena, Payena, Genus Pouteria, Pouteria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapodilla Family
Literary usage of Sapodilla 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 (1897)
"sapodilla family. Shrubs or trees, mostly with a milky juice. L/eaves alternate,
simple, entire, pinnately-veined, mostly coriaceous and exstipulate. ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... (sapodilla family.) Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, alternate entire
exstipulate short- petioled leaves, and regular perfect (small) flowers, ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"sapodilla family BUMELIA Sw. Prodr. 49. 1788. About 30 species, trees and shrubs,
warmer temporal«-, but chiefly of subtropical and tropical America. ..."
4. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sapodilla family. Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood. Simple and
entire alternate leaves, mostly with milky juice, small and perfect ..."
5. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"SABOTAGED, sapodilla family. Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood.
Simple and entire alternate leaves, mostly with milky juice, small and perfect ..."
6. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"(Cape Cod), and NJ west to Ont. Mich, and Ark., and south to Va. and W. Va SAPODILLA
FAMILY. Sapotaceae. Trees or shrubs commonly with milky sap, ..."
7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"sapodilla family. Shrubs or trees, mostly with a milky juice. L/eaves alternate,
simple, entire, pinnately-veined, mostly coriaceous and exstipulate. ..."
8. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... (sapodilla family.) Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, alternate entire
exstipulate short- petioled leaves, and regular perfect (small) flowers, ..."
9. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"sapodilla family BUMELIA Sw. Prodr. 49. 1788. About 30 species, trees and shrubs,
warmer temporal«-, but chiefly of subtropical and tropical America. ..."
10. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sapodilla family. Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood. Simple and
entire alternate leaves, mostly with milky juice, small and perfect ..."
11. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"SABOTAGED, sapodilla family. Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood.
Simple and entire alternate leaves, mostly with milky juice, small and perfect ..."
12. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"(Cape Cod), and NJ west to Ont. Mich, and Ark., and south to Va. and W. Va SAPODILLA
FAMILY. Sapotaceae. Trees or shrubs commonly with milky sap, ..."
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