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Definition of Magnolia family
1. Noun. Subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Ranales, Order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales
Member holonyms: Genus Illicium, Illicium, Genus Magnolia, Genus Manglietia, Manglietia, Genus Liriodendron, Liriodendron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnolia Family
Literary usage of Magnolia family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"IL] Family 24. magnolia family. MAGNOLIACEAE J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam. 2: 74.
magnolia family. 1805. Trees or shrubs, with alternate entire ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"(magnolia family.) Aromatic trees or shrubs, with simple, alternate, petioled
leaves, and i-egular, solitary, hypogynous flowers. Sepals and petals mostly ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"magnolia family. MAGNOLIA L. Sp. Pl. 1: 535. 1753. Twenty-one species, warmer
temperate to tropical regions of eastern Asia ; Mexico. ..."
4. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague Sargent (1894)
"In the magnolia family Japan possesses five genera, while in the United States
there are only four. In Japan arborescent Magnoliaceae ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"... 1 magnolia family (Magnoliaceae). iS'i/w/П'/ш.—Magnolia ¡/launi L. White bay;
sweet bay; sweet magnolia; l)eaver-tree; swamp-sassafras; swamp- laurel. ..."
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