family Amaranthaceae

family Amaranthaceae
noun
cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot family
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  • Amaranthaceae — ▪ plant family  the amaranth family of flowering plants in the order Caryophyllales, with about 60 genera and more than 800 species of herbs, with a few shrubs, trees, and vines, native to tropical America and Africa. The leaves of members of the …   Universalium

  • amaranth family — noun cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs • Syn: ↑Amaranthaceae, ↑family Amaranthaceae • Hypernyms: ↑caryophylloid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Caryophyllales, ↑order Caryophyllales, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • caryophylloid dicot family — noun family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Hyponyms: ↑Caryophyllaceae, ↑family Caryophyllaceae, ↑carnation family, ↑pink family, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • amaranth family — the plant family Amaranthaceae, typified by herbaceous, often weedy plants having alternate or opposite leaves and small, chaffy flowers without petals in brightly colored dense clusters, including the cockscomb, pigweed, and amaranth. * * *… …   Universalium

  • amaranth family — am′aranth fam ily n. pln a family, Amaranthaceae, of herbaceous plants with alternate or opposite leaves and small, chaffy flowers in brightly colored dense clusters: includes the cockscomb and amaranth …   From formal English to slang

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