Definition of Connaraceae

1. Noun. Mostly tropical climbing shrubs or small trees; closely related to Leguminosae.

Exact synonyms: Family Connaraceae, Zebrawood Family
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rosales, Rosales

Lexicographical Neighbors of Connaraceae

Coniferales
Coniferophyta
Coniferophytina
Coniferopsida
Conilurus
Coniogramme
Coniogramme japonica
Conium maculatum
Conleth
Conley
Conlon
Conn's syndrome
Conn.
Connacht
Connacht Irish
Connaraceae
Connarus
Connarus guianensis
Connecticut
Connecticut River
Connecticuter
Connecticuters
Connel
Connell
Connell's suture
Connels
Connemara heath
Conner
Connery
Connie

Literary usage of Connaraceae

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

1. North American Flora by New York Botanical Garden (1905)
"connaraceae BY NATHANIEL LORD BRITTON Trees, shrubs, or woody vines, with alternate ... connaraceae."

2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"By one, or at most two, species the Erythroxylaceae, connaraceae, Sapindaceae, Dilleniaceae, Myrsinaceae, Solanaceae, Loganiaceae, ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1862)
"... to connaraceae inclusive. A conspectus is given of Polypetalous Dicotyledons. These are divided into three ... The order connaraceae belongs to the ..."

4. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Again, in another work he says, the genera of the connaraceae "differ in having one or more ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen, in the imbricate ..."

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