Definition of Cyrilla family

1. Noun. Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyrilla Family

cypris
cyprodime
cyproheptadine
cyproheptadine hydrochloride
cyproheptadines
cyproterones
cypruses
cypsela
cypselae
cypselas
cypseliform
cyrilla
cyrilla family (current term)
cyrilovite
cyriologic
cyst
cyst and decease
cyst thyroglossal
cystacanth
cystadenocarcinoma
cystadenoma
cystalgia
cystamine
cystaphos
cystathionase
cystathionine
cystathionine beta-lyase

Literary usage of Cyrilla 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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"cyrilla family. 1847. Glabrous shrubs, or small trees, with simple entire thick alternate exstipulate leaves, long-persistent or evergreen, ..."

2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... pedicels become elongated and very feathery. From the orange-yellow wood of our .species a dye, rich in colour, is extracted. THE cyrilla family. ..."

3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"(cyrilla family.) Trees or shrubs, with alternate evergreen leaves, .without stipules, and perfect white flowers in lateral or terminal racemes ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"—Flowers and fruit much as in the cultivated SMOKE-THEE (Ji. Cotinus L.), which is an occasional escape within our range. CYRILLACEAE (cyrilla family) ..."

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