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Definition of Tea family
1. Noun. A family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Camellia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Family
Literary usage of Tea 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 (1913)
"... the District of Columbia and Georgia. Introduced from western Asia. Aug.-Sept.
Family 86. THEACEAE DC. Prodr. 1: 529. 1824. tea family. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"tea family. Trees or shrubs, with alternate or rarely opposite pinnately-veined
mainly exstipulate leaves, and large axillary or terminal flowers. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"tea family. 1824. Trees or shrubs, with alternate or rarely opposite pinnately-veined
mainly exstipulate leaves, and large axillary or terminal flowers. ..."
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