magnolia family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.

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Example Sentences

It belongs to the magnolia family, and the leaves are used by the common people in place of tea.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Drimys winteri.—This plant belongs to the magnolia family and furnishes the aromatic tonic known as Winter's bark.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

Four of the ten genera in the magnolia family are represented in North America.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen