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Definition of Strawberry-shrub family
1. Noun. Shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Ranales, Order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales
Member holonyms: Calycanthus, Genus Calycanthus, Chimonanthus, Genus Chimonanthus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strawberry-shrub Family
Literary usage of Strawberry-shrub 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)
"strawberry-shrub family. Shrubs, with opposite entire short-petioled leaves, no
stipules, and terminal solitary large flowers on lateral leafy branches. ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"Children have the pretty idea that the plant only unfurls its great umbrella-like
leaves during April showers. . THE strawberry-shrub family. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"strawberry-shrub family. Shrubs, with aromatic bark, opposite entire short-petioled
leaves, no stipules, and solitary large flowers on lateral leafy ..."
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