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Definition of Spindle-tree family
1. Noun. Trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Member holonyms: Catha, Genus Catha, Celastrus, Genus Celastrus, Euonymus, Genus Euonymus
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spindle-tree Family
Literary usage of Spindle-tree family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"JOT of EB xxxvi. 2542. There are varieties also both of the campes'tris and the
monta'na with variegated leaves. LXXVII. THE spindle-tree family. ..."
2. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"... (spindle-tree family). Shrubs or trees, with alternate or opposite simple leaves.
Calyx of four or fivb sepals, imbricated in aestivation. ..."
3. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Spindle Tree Family. A small family of little use apart from their employment in
landscape work, for which their bright seeds render them attractive. ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"... shrubs—the staff-tree or spindle-tree family—mostly tropical, having simple,
coriaceous leaves, small regular flowers with imbricated sepals and petals, ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1894)
"THE spindle-tree family. Spindle-tree. THE BUCKTHORN FAMILY. Alder buckthorn.
THE MAPLE FAMILY. Sycamore. Common maple; locks and key. ..."
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