Definition of Mistletoe family

1. Noun. In some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae.

Exact synonyms: Family Viscaceae, Viscaceae
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Santalales, Santalales
Member holonyms: Genus Viscum, Viscum, Genus Phoradendron, Phoradendron

2. Noun. In some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistletoe Family

mistings
mistion
mistions
mistitle
mistitled
mistitles
mistitling
mistle
mistle-toe
mistle thrush
mistled
mistles
mistless
mistletoe
mistletoe cactus
mistletoe family (current term)
mistletoe fig
mistletoe rubber plant
mistletoe thrush
mistletoebird
mistletoebirds
mistletoed
mistletoes
mistlike
mistling
mistold
mistonusk
mistook
mistouch
mistouched

Literary usage of Mistletoe 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 (1913)
"mistletoe family. Parasitic green shrubs or herbs, containing chlorophyll, growing on woody plants and absorbing food from their sap 'through specialized ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"mistletoe family. Fig. 17. Herbs or subshrubs, parasites or half- parasites, with or without chlorophyll, rarely rooted in the earth: leaves usually ..."

3. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"... causing much damage in the forest, especially west of the Rocky Monti- tains.1 In Europe members of the mistletoe family are important tree parasites. i ..."

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