Definition of Dioscoreaceae

1. Noun. Yams.

Exact synonyms: Family Dioscoreaceae, Yam Family
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Member holonyms: Dioscorea, Genus Dioscorea, Genus Tamus, Tamus
Group relationships: Liliales, Order Liliales

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioscoreaceae

Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder
Dionysos
Dionysus
Diophantine
Diophantine equation
Diophantine equations
Diophantus
Dior
Dioscorea alata
Dioscorea batata
Dioscorea bulbifera
Dioscorea elephantipes
Dioscorea paniculata
Dioscorea trifida
Dioscoreaceae (current term)
Dioscuri
Diospyros
Diospyros ebenum
Diospyros kaki
Diospyros kurzii
Diospyros lotus
Diospyros virginiana
DipIT
Dipetalonema reconditum
Dipetalonema streptocerca
Diphda
Diphylla
Diphylla ecaudata
Diphyllobothrium cordatum

Literary usage of Dioscoreaceae

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 (1896)
"... as long as the persistent style, shorter than the perianth. Pine barren bogs, New Jersey to Florida. June-Aug. Family 24. Dioscoreaceae Lindl. Nat. ..."

2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"... Dioscoreaceae. Yam Family. DIOSCOREA L. 8p. PL 2 :1032. 1753. About 150 species, perennial climbers, of the wanner parts of I lie globe, ..."

3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"... the leafy shoots with their two-ranked leaves are thus strongly flattened. Such leaves are termed "Equitant." Fam. 5. Dioscoreaceae. — The Dioscoreaceae ..."

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