Family Tiliaceae (Noun)
Meaning
Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The Order Malvales includes the family Malvaceae, Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Tiliaceae.
- Tiliaceae or the Linden family, is a small family of flowering plants.
- Early classification systems placed the Tiliaceae family in the order Euphorbiales.
- No fossils of obvious Tiliaceae origin are known.
- Tiliaceae has five main genus - Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, and Sparmannia.