Definition of Family Lythraceae

1. Noun. Herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Lythraceae

family Lomariopsidaceae
family Lophiidae
family Lophosoriaceae
family Loranthaceae
family Lorisidae
family Loxomataceae
family Lucanidae
family Lutjanidae
family Luvaridae
family Lycaenidae
family Lycoperdaceae
family Lycopodiaceae
family Lycosidae
family Lygaeidae
family Lymantriidae
family Lythraceae (current term)
family Machilidae
family Macropodidae
family Macrorhamphosidae
family Macrouridae
family Macruridae
family Magnoliaceae
family Majidae
family Malacanthidae
family Malpighiaceae
family Malvaceae
family Mammutidae
family Manidae
family Manteidae
family Mantidae

Literary usage of Family Lythraceae

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

1. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family LYTHRACEAE. Loosestrife Family. A rather small and unimportant family, mostly of herbs, including the cigar plant and a few other species of Cu[>hca ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Lythraceae. Loosestrife Family. Contains about 21 genera and 350 species of very wide distribution. They are herbs, shrubs or even trees, ..."

3. Wild flowers worth notice by Phebe Lankester (1879)
"THIS is a showy plant belonging to the family Lythraceae. It has a perennial root-stock, with short annual erect stems, two or three feet high, ..."

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