Definition of Ebenaceae

1. Noun. Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon.

Exact synonyms: Ebony Family, Family Ebenaceae
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebenaceae

Eastertimes
Eastery
Eastie
Eastleigh
Eastman
Eastoft
Eat at Joe's
Eaton agent
Eaton agent pneumonia
Eau Claire
EbN
EbS
Ebbie
Ebbinghaus illusion
Ebbinghaus test
Ebenaceae
Ebenales
Ebenezer
Eberth's bacillus
Eberth's lines
Ebeye
Ebionite
Ebionites
Ebionitic
Eblaite
Eblis
Ebner's glands
Ebner's reticulum
Ebola

Literary usage of Ebenaceae

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, Addison Brown (1897)
"ebenaceae Vent. Tabl. 2: 443. 1779. EBONY FAMILY. Trees or shrubs with very hard wood, alternate entire exstipulate leaves, and dioecious polygamous or ..."

2. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"... this may give a clue to the adaptability of many other kinds of woods in the large order of ebenaceae as substitutes for the Turkish boxwood. ..."

3. Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa with Particular Reference to Its by Cornelius Alfred Moloney (1887)
"edible. — ' Silva Capensis,' Pappe, p. 26 ; ' Monograph of ebenaceae,' ... Monograph of ebenaceae,' Hiern, p. 1 1 1. Distribution : Lower Guinea. ..."

4. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by Royal Society of South Africa (1878)
"*-fA Monograph of ebenaceae. In Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. ... 208 *Notes on ebenaceae, with description of a new species. ..."

5. The Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by South African Philosophical Society (1880)
"*-fA Monograph of ebenaceae. ^e Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. XII., parti. ... 209 - *Further notes on ebenaceae, with description of a new ..."

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