Definition of Cistaceae

1. Noun. Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cistaceae

Cirripedia
Cirsium
Cirsium arvense
Cirsium discolor
Cirsium eriophorum
Cirsium flodmanii
Cirsium helenioides
Cirsium heterophylum
Cirsium lanceolatum
Cirsium rivulare
Cirsium vulgare
Cisalpine Gaulish
Cisatlantic
Ciskei
Cisleithan
Cistaceae (current term)
Cistercian
Cistercians
Cistothorus
Cistothorus palustris
Cistothorus platensis
Cistus
Cistus albidus
Cistus ladanifer
Cistus ladanum
Cisuralian
Citation
Citellus
Citellus citellus
Citellus lateralis

Literary usage of Cistaceae

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)
"Cistaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 91. 1836. ROCK-ROSE FAMILY. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple leaves, and solitary racemose ..."

2. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"... sometimes immediately below the first protuberance, at other times at some distance from it (as, for instance, in many Polygonaceae and Cistaceae), ..."

3. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"... the ovule has but one integument, as in Coniferae, Composite, Lobeliaceae, Gentianaceae, &c.; and in others two, as in Polygonaceae, Cistaceae, ..."

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