Definition of Family santalaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Santalaceae

family Roridulaceae
family Rosaceae
family Rubiaceae
family Ruscaceae
family Russulaceae
family Rutaceae
family Rynchopidae
family Saccharomycetaceae
family Sagittariidae
family Salamandridae
family Salicaceae
family Salmonidae
family Salpidae
family Salvadoraceae
family Salviniaceae
family Santalaceae
family Sapindaceae
family Sapotaceae
family Sarcoptidae
family Sarcoscyphaceae
family Sarraceniaceae
family Saturniidae
family Satyridae
family Saururaceae
family Saxifragaceae
family Scarabaeidae
family Scaridae
family Scheuchzeriaceae
family Schistosomatidae
family Schizaeaceae

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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