Apocynaceae

Definition: Apocynaceae

Apocynaceae

Noun

1. Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs.

Synonyms: Apocynaceae

Synonyms: dogbane family (n), family Apocynaceae (n). (additional references)

Gentianales

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	*Apocynaceae*

Genera

Acokanthera
Adenium
Aganonerion
Aganosma
Alafia
Allamanda
Allomarkgrafia
Allowoodsonia
Alstonia
Alyxia
Amocalyx
Ambelania
Amsonia
Ancylobotrys
Anechites
Angadenia
Anodendron
Apocynum
Arduina
Artia
Asketanthera
Aspidosperma
Baissea
Beaumontia
Bousigonia
Cabucala
Callichilia
Calocrater
Cameraria
Carissa
Carpodinus
Carruthersia
Carvalhoa
Catharanthus
Cerbera
Cerberiopsis
Chamaeclitandra
Chilocarpus
Chonemorpha
Cleghornia
Clitandra
Condylocarpon
Couma
Craspidospermum
Crioceras
Cycladenia
Cyclocotyla
Cylindropsis
Delphyodon
Dewevrella
Dictyophleba
Dipladenia
Diplorhynchus
Dyera
Ecdysanthera
Echites
Elytropus
Epigynium
Eucorymbia
Farquharia
Fernaldia
Forsteronia
Funtumia
Galactophora
Geissospermum
Gonioma
Grisseea
Hancornia
Haplophyton
Himatanthus
Holarrhena
Hunteria
Hymenolophus
Ichnocarpus
Isonema
Ixodonerium
Kamettia
Kibatalia
Kopsia
Lacmellea
Landolphia
Laubertia
Laxoplumeria
Lepinia
Lepiniopsis
Leuconotis
Lochnera
Lyonsia
Macoubea
Macropharynx
Macrosiphonia
Malouetia
Mandevilla
Mascarenhasia
Melodinus
Mesechites
Micrechtites
Microplumeria
Molongum
Mortoniella
Motandra
Mucoa
Neobracea
Neocouma
Nerium
Nouettea
Ochrosia
Odontadenia
Oncinotis
Orthopichonia
Pachypodium
Pachouria
Papuechites
Parahancornia
Parameria
Parepigynum
Parsonsia
Peltastes
Pentalinon
Petchia
Picralima
Plectaneia
Pleiocarpa
Pleioceras
Plumeria
Pottsia
Prestonia
Pycnobotrya
Quiotania
Rauwolfia
Rhabdadenia
Rhazya
Rhigospira
Rhodocalyx
Rhyncodia
Saba
Salpinctes
Schizozygia
Secondatia
Sindechites
Skytanthus
Spirolobium
Spongiosperma
Stemmadenia
Stephanostegia
Stephanostema
Stipecoma
Strempeliopsis
Strophanthus
Tabernaemontana
Tabernanthe
Temnadenia
Thenardia
Thevetia
Tintinnabularia
Trachelospermum
Urceola
Urnularia
Vahadenia
Vallariopsis
Vallaris
Vallesia
Vinca
Voacanga
Willughbeia
Woytkowskia
Wrightia
Xylinabaria
Xylinabariopsis

The Apocynaceae Family is composed of trees and shrubs with milky sap. The Family includes 1,500 species divided in 164 genera. The leaves are usually opposite and decussate, or whorled with no stipules. Flowers, aggregated in inflorescences are bisexual, with synsepalous, 5-lobed calyx.

Several plants of this family had economic uses in the past. The genera Carpodinus, Landolphia, Mascarenhasia were an inferior commercial source of rubber. The species Carissa carandas is an edible fruit known as Natal plum. The milk sap of the Namibian Pachypodium was used in the past by the Bushmen as a venom to dip their arrows into.

External link

http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/www/apocynac.htm

Crosswords: Apocynaceae

English words defined with "Apocynaceae": apocynaceous ♦ family Apocynaceae ♦ Gentianales ♦ order Gentianales. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Apocynaceae": N,N-Dimethyltryptamine ♦ Vincamine. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Apocynaceae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (dogbane, dogbane family).

"Apocynaceae" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Apocynaceae" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	4	175,879

Expression using "Apocynaceae": family Apocynaceae. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-e-n-o-p-y"
	-4 letters: panacea.
	-5 letters: apnoea, canape, canopy.
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