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Definition of Gnetaceae
1. Noun. Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Gnetales, Order Gnetales
Member holonyms: Genus Gnetum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnetaceae
Literary usage of Gnetaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"We do not know whether this varying behaviour of the neck-portion has any biological
significance. gnetaceae. The gnetaceae exhibit peculiar and remarkable ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... premising, however, a brief sketch of the general floral structure.1 505.
In gnetaceae, Gymnosperms jind Angiosperms almost come together. ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"Family gnetaceae Genus GNETUM GNETUM GNEMON L. BAGO. A description of this species
and its local names are given in the bulletin on fibers. ..."
4. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"gnetaceae. On the Embryology of the gnetaceae, see the paper by Bower, Q^JMS,
1882, of which the following is a brief abstract:— It ..."
5. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"The Cycads are undoubtedly related to the Ferns, but the origin of the Conifers
and gnetaceae is extremely uncertain. There is evidence that the Conifers ..."
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