Flacourtiaceae

from The Century Dictionary.

• A family of dicotyledonous choripetalous plants of the order Hypericales, typified by the genus Flacourtia, formerly included in the Bixaceæ, but more closely related to the Violaceæ. It includes 79 genera and about 300 species, chiefly woody plants of the tropics. See Samydaceæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• proper noun A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs.

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• noun chiefly tropical trees and shrubs