Definition of Family Taccaceae

1. Noun. Small family of tropical herbs.

Exact synonyms: Taccaceae
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Family
Group relationships: Liliales, Order Liliales
Member holonyms: Genus Tacca, Tacca

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Taccaceae

family Strigidae
family Stromateidae
family Strombidae
family Strophariaceae
family Struthionidae
family Sturnidae
family Styracaceae
family Suidae
family Sulidae
family Sylviidae
family Symplocaceae
family Synchytriaceae
family Syngnathidae
family Synodontidae
family Tabanidae
family Taccaceae (current term)
family Tachinidae
family Tachyglossidae
family Taeniidae
family Talpidae
family Tamaricaceae
family Tapiridae
family Tarsiidae
family Taxaceae
family Tecophilaeacea
family Teiidae
family Tenebrionidae
family Tenrecidae
family Tenthredinidae

Literary usage of Family Taccaceae

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

1. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Taccaceae : Stemless herbs with broad pinnately parallel veined leaves ; pistil 1-celled ; ovules many ; stamens 6. (Sp. 10. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family Taccaceae. Tacca Family. The type and only important genus of this small family furnishes the pia plant, ..."

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