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Definition of Family Equisetaceae
1. Noun. Sole surviving family of the Equisetales: fern allies.
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Equisetales, Order Equisetales
Member holonyms: Equisetum, Genus Equisetum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Equisetaceae
Literary usage of Family Equisetaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The single order contains a single family, Equisetaceae, among the living forms,
and but a single genus, Equisetum. There are about twenty-four species, ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"... 6 to 18 inches high, found in swamps and marshes Equisetum hyemale L.
Horsetail family ( Equisetaceae ). Common scouring-rush ; horsetail; shave-grass. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1890)
"Equisetum species, family Equisetaceae, of which the native name is "Cola de
Caballo ;" a diuretic and astringent plant, used in cases of gonor- ..."
4. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"Family. Equisetaceae. Genus. Equisetum. Species. (eg) arvense. B. Habitat: 1.
The field horsetail (E. arvense), is common along railway embankments, ..."
5. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"Occurrence.—PATAPSCO FORMATION. Vinegar Hill, Maryland. Collection.—Johns Hopkins
University. Order EQUISETALES Family EQUISETACEAE Genus ..."
6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... capable of identification with those of these same existing plants, that they
must be regarded as forming an extinct genus of the family Equisetaceae. ..."
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