Definition of Family Myricaceae

1. Noun. Constituting the order Myricales.

Exact synonyms: Myricaceae, Wax-myrtle Family
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Myricales, Order Myricales
Member holonyms: Genus Myrica, Myrica, Comptonia, Genus Comptonia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Myricaceae

family Muraenidae
family Muridae
family Musaceae
family Muscicapidae
family Muscidae
family Musophagidae
family Mustelidae
family Mutillidae
family Myacidae
family Mycetophylidae
family Mycobacteriaceae
family Mycoplasmataceae
family Myctophidae
family Myliobatidae
family Mylodontidae
family Myricaceae (current term)
family Myristicaceae
family Myrmecophagidae
family Myrmeleontidae
family Myrsinaceae
family Myrtaceae
family Mysidae
family Mytilidae
family Myxinidae
family Myxobacteriaceae
family Myxophyceae
family Naiadaceae
family Najadaceae
family Naticidae
family Nautilidae

Literary usage of Family Myricaceae

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 MYRICACEAE. Bayberry Family. A small family of shrubs or small trees with aromatic foliage, the wax which encrusts the fruit of some species used in ..."

2. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"... cerifera L. (family Myricaceae) yield 0.021 pc of volatile oil,2 of greenish color, and very pleasant aromatic, spicy odor. Sp. gr. 0.886; «D = —5°3'. ..."

3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"SWEET GALE FAMILY. Myricaceae. Shrubs with aromatic, sweet-scented, alternate-growing leaves, almost leathery in texture. The flowers in short, ..."

4. Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States, 1785-1807 by James Alexander Robertson, Paul Alliot (1910)
"Its scientific name is Myrica cerifera and it belongs to the sweet-gale family (Myricaceae). Among the products natural to Louisiana, that of the wax tree ..."

5. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"... Washington state (Torrey 1923) and from the Specimen Creek Flora of Yellowstone National Park (Chadwick and Yama- moto, 1984). 2. family Myricaceae ChM ..."

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