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Definition of Spiderwort family
1. Noun. Large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Commelinales, Order Commelinales, Order Xyridales, Xyridales
Member holonyms: Genus Commelina, Dayflower, Spiderwort, Genus Tradescantia, Tradescantia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiderwort Family
Literary usage of Spiderwort 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 (1896)
"spiderwort family. 1828. Perennial or annual leafy herbs with regular or irregular
perfect and often showy flowers in cymes, commonly subtended by ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"E. (spiderwort family.) Herbs, with chiefly fibrous roots, jointed and leafy
stems, and perfect or somewhat polygamous often irregular flowers. ..."
3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... and rigid and about as long as the stem. Towards their summits they become
bristle-like. The petals of the flowers are blue. THE spiderwort family. ..."
4. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(spiderwort family.) Herbs, with fibrous or sometimes thickened roots, jointed
and often branching leafy stems, and chiefly perfect and 6-androus, ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... spiderwort family. Herbs with mucilaginous juice, jointed and mostly branching
leafy stems, and perfect sometimes irregular flowers, having a perianth ..."
6. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"E, OR spiderwort family. Annual or perennial herbs, mostly indigenous to the
tropics and represented by nearly 400 species. It is represented in the L'nited ..."
7. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"spiderwort family (Commelinaceae) Virginia, or Common Day-flower Commelina
virginica Flowers—Blue, 1 in. broad or less, irregular, grouped at end of stem, ..."
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