Rhamnaceae

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Noun

Rhamnaceae - trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal valuebuckthorn family, family Rhamnaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationorder Rhamnales, Rhamnales - an order of dicotyledonous plantsgenus Rhamnus, Rhamnus - type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthornsColubrina, genus Colubrina - mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruitsgenus Ziziphus, Ziziphus - spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubesgenus Paliurus, Paliurus - thorny Eurasian shrubsgenus Pomaderris, Pomaderris - a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees

Rhamnaceae

[ram′nās·ē‚ē] (botany) A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order Rhamnales characterized by a solitary ovule in each locule, free stamens, simple leaves, and flowers that are hypogynous to perigynous or epigynous.

Rhamnaceae

a family of dicotyledonous plants. Members are trees and shrubs (often thorny), sometimes lianas, rarely tiny bushes, and even more rarely herbs. The leaves are simple, entire, mostly with perianths. The flowers are small, bisexual (sometimes unisexual), and five-membered (rarely four-membered). There are approximately 60 genera (more than 900 species) in all parts of the world, but predominantly in the tropics and subtropics; there are five genera in the USSR (24 species).

Some Rhamnaceae yield edible fruits (jujube tree, Japanese raisin tree, Sageretia), contain medicinal substances (buckthorn and rhinethorn), serve as hedges (Christ’s-thorn), or yield fast dyes (some species of Rhamnus) and valuable lumber.

REFERENCE

Grubov, V. I. “Krushinovye—Rhamnaceae R. Br.” In Flora SSSR, vol. 14. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.

Rhamnaceae

Related to Rhamnaceae: Rhamnales

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Synonyms for Rhamnaceae

noun trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value

Synonyms

buckthorn family
family Rhamnaceae

Related Words

dicot family
magnoliopsid family
order Rhamnales
Rhamnales
genus Rhamnus
Rhamnus
Colubrina
genus Colubrina
genus Ziziphus
Ziziphus
genus Paliurus
Paliurus
genus Pomaderris
Pomaderris