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Definition of Staff-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 Staff-tree Family
Literary usage of Staff-tree 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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"staff-tree family. Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite,
simple. Stipules, when present, small and caducous. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"staff-tree family. Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite,
simple. Stipules, when present, small and caducous. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"staff-tree family. Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite,
simple. Stipules, when present, small and caducous. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"staff-tree family. Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite,
simple. Stipules, when present, small and caducous. ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... CELASTRACEAE (STAFF TREE FAMILY) Shrubs with simple leaves, and small regular
flowers, ... STAFF TREE FAMILY."
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