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Definition of Ebony family
1. Noun. Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Diospyros, Genus Diospyros
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebony Family
Literary usage of Ebony 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)
"ebony family. Trees or shrubs with very hard wood, alternate entire exstipulate
leaves, and dioecious polygamous or rarely perfect regular flowers, ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... covered with golden brown hairs, while the flower-clusters, which although
abundant are not conspicuous, show also this feature. "§ THE ebony family. ..."
3. The Forester's Manual: Or, The Forest Trees of Eastern North America by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"... ebony family PERSIMMON OR DATE PLUM. (Diospyros virginiana) A small tree 30
to 50 feet high, famous for the fruit so astringent and puckery when unripe, ..."
4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... ebony family. Trees, with hard wood, no milky juice, alternate entire leaves,
from 2 to 4 times as ..."
5. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"... ebony family PERSIMMON OR DATE PLUM. (Diospyros virginiana) A small tree 30
to 50 feet high, famous for the fruit so astringent and puckery when unripe, ..."
6. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"THE ebony family.— Ebena'ceai. These are trees and shrubs, chiefly Indian and
tropical, though occurring also in North America, southern Europe, ..."
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