Definition of Family Ericaceae

1. Noun. Heathers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Ericaceae

family Embiotocidae
family Empetraceae
family Emydidae
family Endamoebidae
family Engraulidae
family Enterobacteriaceae
family Entolomataceae
family Entomophthoraceae
family Epacridaceae
family Ephedraceae
family Ephemeridae
family Ephippidae
family Equidae
family Equisetaceae
family Erethizontidae
family Ericaceae (current term)
family Erinaceidae
family Eriocaulaceae
family Erysiphaceae
family Erythroxylaceae
family Eschrichtiidae
family Esocidae
family Euglenaceae
family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae
family Fagaceae
family Falconidae
family Fasciolidae

Literary usage of Family Ericaceae

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

1. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"The Indians loved to smoke its bark for its alleged tonic effect. (See plate, page HEATH FAMILY (Ericaceae) Pipsissewa; Prince's Pine ..."

2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"Heath family (Ericaceae). Manzanita. A shrub-like tree, 9 to 25 feet high, ... Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. Heath family (Ericaceae). ..."

3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"HEATH FAMILY. Ericaceae. Shrubs and herbs with commonly alternate, toothed or toothless leaves, and perfect regular flowers with 4-5 corolla-lobes, ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Among the prominent alliances are the following: (1) The heath family (Ericaceae), which consists mostly of shrubby plants, and which contains such forms as ..."

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