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Definition of Family Santalaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Santalales, Santalales
Member holonyms: Genus Santalum, Santalum, Genus Buckleya, Comandra, Genus Comandra, Eucarya, Fusanus, Genus Eucarya, Genus Fusanus, Genus Pyrularia, Pyrularia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Santalaceae
Literary usage of Family Santalaceae
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 sandal\vood family (Santalaceae, example, the bastard toad-flax, Comandra
umbellata), widely distributed in North America. 1208. Order Aristolochiales. ..."
2. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"family Santalaceae.—Flowers ACTINOMORPHIC ; with a small greenish simple, trimerous
or pentamerous perigone; ..."
3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Santalaceae, which consists of 26 genera and about 250 species, is
divided into two groups ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family Santalaceae. Sandalwood Family. Contains about 26 genera and 250 species,
mainly tropical. They are herbs, shrubs or occasionally trees, ..."
5. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"SANDAL-WOOD FAMILY. Santalaceae. A small, mostly tropical family, including a
few trees or shrubs with alternate-growing, toothless leaves, and staminate ..."
6. Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the by R. A. Donkin (2003)
"... van nederlandsch Indie (1855-).103 Sandalwood Linnaeus's Santalum album (1753)104
in the family Santalaceae has rarely been challenged.105 In fact, ..."
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