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Definition of Sterculia family
1. Noun. A large family of plants of order Malvales.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Malvales, Order Malvales
Member holonyms: Genus Sterculia, Brachychiton, Genus Brachychiton, Cola, Genus Cola, Genus Dombeya, Firmiana, Genus Firmiana, Fremontia, Fremontodendron, Genus Fremontia, Genus Fremontodendron, Genus Helicteres, Helicteres, Genus Heritiera, Genus Terrietia, Heritiera, Terrietia, Genus Hermannia, Hermannia, Genus Pterospermum, Pterospermum, Genus Tarrietia, Tarrietia, Genus Theobroma, Theobroma, Genus Triplochiton, Triplochiton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterculia Family
Literary usage of Sterculia family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sterculia family. Chiefly a tropical family, to which belongs the THEOBROMA
or CHOCOLATE ... sterculia family."
2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"THE sterculia family.—Sterculia'cea. Large trees and shrubs, intimately related
to the Malvacea, and natives exclusively of warm countries. ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"... or trees—the cola-nut or sterculia family—having usually opposite, single, or
three- to nine-foliate leaves and a variously shaped inflorescence of ..."
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