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- noun widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
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Examples
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This peculiar physiognomy* of the vegetation of the Guainia, the Tuamini, and the Cassiquiare, is owing to the preponderance of the families of the guttiferae, the sapotae, and the laurineae, in the equatorial regions.
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What the coniferae are to the temperate zone, the terebinthaceae and the guttiferae are to the torrid.
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What the coniferae are to the temperate zone, the terebinthaceae and the guttiferae are to the torrid.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Guainia, the Tuamini, and the Cassiquiare, is owing to the preponderance of the families of the guttiferae, the sapotae, and the laurineae, in the equatorial regions.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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