Definition of Capparidaceae

1. Noun. A dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Capparidaceae

Capitol Building
Capitol Hill
Capitol Reef National Park
Capitoline
Capitonidae
Caplan
Caplan's nodules
Capnocytophaga canimorsus
Capoid
Capone
Caporetto
Capoten
Cappadocia
Cappadocian
Cappadocians
Capparidaceae
Capparis
Capparis arborea
Capparis cynophallophora
Capparis flexuosa
Capparis mitchellii
Capparis spinosa
Capps
Capps' reflex
Capra
Capra aegagrus
Capra falconeri
Capra hircus
Capra ibex
Caprella

Literary usage of Capparidaceae

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)
"capparidaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 61. 1836. CAPER FAMILY. Herbs or shrubs (rarely trees), with a watery sap, alternate or very rarely opposite, ..."

2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"... belonging to the Family of the capparidaceae. ... A TREE belonging to the Natural Order capparidaceae, growing in the arid assert plain at the ..."

3. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"capparidaceae. CAPER FAMILY POLANISIA P. graveolens, Raf. Sandy shores of Lake Champlain ; common. SARRACENIACEAE. PITCHER PLANT FAMILY SARRACENIA S. ..."

4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"... capparidaceae, Resedaceae, and Moringa- ceae, together containing about 2615 species, the large families being Cruciferae with 1860 species, ..."

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