Definition of Lythraceae

1. Noun. Herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lythraceae

Lysiloma sabicu
Lysimachia
Lysimachia ciliatum
Lysimachia clethroides Duby
Lysimachia nemorum
Lysimachia nummularia
Lysimachia quadrifolia
Lysimachia terrestris
Lysimachia vulgaris
Lysimachus
Lysippus
Lysol
Lyssa
Lyt antigen
Lyt antigens
Lythraceae (current term)
Lythrum
Lythrum hyssopifolia
Lythrum salicaria
Lytico-Bodig disease
Lytton
Lytton Strachey
Lœuilly
Láadan
Lévy flight
Lévy flights
Lóegaire the Victorious
Löwchen
Lübeck

Literary usage of Lythraceae

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)
"April-May. Called also beef-suet tree, silver leaf. Wild oleaster- or olive-tree. Bull-berry. Fruit ripe July-Aug. Family 96. Lythraceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. ..."

2. A flora of western middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"1 Lythraceae. 3. E. watsonii Cogn. Stems slender, not succulent, ... Lythraceae. LOOSE-STRIFE FAMILY. Herbs with opposite or alternate entire simple leaves. ..."

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