Definition of Ochnaceae

1. Noun. Family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves.

Exact synonyms: Family Ochnaceae, Ochna Family
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Ochna, Ochna

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ochnaceae

Occitania
Ocean
Ocean State
Oceania
Oceanian
Oceanians
Oceanic
Oceanica
Oceanid
Oceanites
Oceanites oceanicus
Oceanospirillum
Oceanus
Ochna
Ochna serrulata
Ochnaceae (current term)
Ochoa
Ochoa's law
Ochotona
Ochotona collaris
Ochotona princeps
Ochotonidae
Ochroma
Ochroma lagopus
Ochs
Ochsner
Ochsner's method
Ochsner clamp
Ocicat
Ocimum

Literary usage of Ochnaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"Ochnaceae (pp. 188-190). In thé course of the last few years the Ochnaceae (sensu Bentham and Hooker) have formed the subject of detailed systematic, ..."

2. Guide to the Literature of Botany: Being a Classified Selection of Botanical by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1881)
"Begrenzung und systematische Stellung . . . der Ochnaceae. Dresden, 1874. 4°. Odontoglossum. *JBATEMAN (J.). Monogr. of Odontoglossum. Lond. 18[64-]74. fol. ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"XVI of the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, issued in December, consists of an extended discussion of the Ochnaceae, by Van Tieghem. ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"A few species of Actinidia are in the American trade. 141. Ochnaceae (from the genus Ochna, which is from ..."

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