Definition of Dogbane family

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogbane Family

dog unit
dog violet
dog watch
dog watches
dog whelk
dog whistle
dog whistle politics
dog wrench
dog year
dog years
dogal
dogate
dogates
dogbane
dogbane family (current term)
dogbanes
dogberries
dogberry
dogbolt
dogbolts
dogbone
dogbones
dogbreath
dogbreaths
dogcart
dogcarts
dogcatcher
dogcatchers
dogday

Literary usage of Dogbane family

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)
"dogbane family. Perennial herbs, shrubs, vines, or some tropical genera trees, mostly with an acrid milky juice, with simple opposite alternate or ..."

2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... (dogbane family.) Herbs or shrubs, with acrid milky juice, mostly opposite entire ex- stipulate leaves, and regular cymose or panicled flowers. ..."

3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... are smooth and apple- green. Other differences are found in its white flowers and in that the seeds they bear are quite rough. € THE dogbane family. ..."

4. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... dogbane family. Herbaceous or woody plants, known mainly by the milky acrid juice, opposite (sometimes whorled) simple and entire leaves, ..."

5. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"dogbane family (Apocynaceae') Spreading Dogbane; Fly-trap Dogbane; Honey-bloom; Bitter-root Apocynum androsaemifolium Flowers—Delicate pink, veined with a ..."

6. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy for Students of Pharmacy, and by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"... ^E, OR dogbane family. A large family, comprising over 1000 perennial herbs, shrubs and trees. They are very widely distributed, occurring mostly, ..."

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