Bombacaceae — n. a natural family of tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds. Syn: family {Bombacaceae}. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bombacaceae — The name Bombacaceae is a botanical name at the rank of family, which is now widely considered obsolete. As is true for any botanical name, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view. The family name is based… … Wikipedia
Bombacaceae — noun tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds • Syn: ↑family Bombacaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Malvales, ↑order Malvales • … Useful english dictionary
Bombacaceae — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda ? Bombacaceae Bombax flower Clasificación científica … Wikipedia Español
Bombacaceae — ▪ plant family the bombax or kapok family of flowering trees and shrubs, in the mallow order (Malvales), comprising 27 genera. It is allied to the mallow family (Malvaceae), to which the cotton plant belongs, and is characteristic of the tropics … Universalium
dilleniid dicot family — noun family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Hyponyms: ↑Capparidaceae, ↑family Capparidaceae, ↑caper family, ↑Cruciferae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bombax family — /bom baks/ the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk cotton tree. [ < NL… … Universalium
bombax family — bom′bax fam ily [[t]ˈbɒm bæks[/t]] n. a family, Bombacaceae, of tropical trees with palmate leaves, often showy flowers, and dry fruit with a woody pulp: includes the balsa, baobab, and the silk cotton tree • Etymology: < NL (Linnaeus): the… … From formal English to slang
bombax family — /bom baks/ the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk cotton tree. [ < NL… … Useful english dictionary
List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family — The following is a list of trees and shrubs of high notoriety. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species.=GYMNOSPERMS= =CONIFERS= Araucariaceae: The… … Wikipedia