Definition of Ranunculaceae

1. Noun. A family of Ranunculaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranunculaceae

Rangpur Division
Ranier
Ranikhet disease
Ranke's angle
Ranke's formula
Rankin
Rankin's clamp
Rankine
Rankine cycle
Rankine scale
Ransohoff's sign
Ranter
Ranterism
Ranters
Rantism
Ranunculaceae (current term)
Ranunculales
Ranunculus acris
Ranunculus aquatilis
Ranunculus bulbosus
Ranunculus ficaria
Ranunculus flammula
Ranunculus glaberrimus
Ranunculus lingua
Ranunculus lyalii
Ranunculus occidentalis
Ranunculus repens
Ranunculus sceleratus
Ranvier's crosses
Ranvier's disks

Literary usage of Ranunculaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"... OF NORTH AMERICAN Ranunculaceae. By KC Davis. Published by the author, and presented to the faculty of Cornell University as a thesis for the de-gree of ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Ranunculaceae Juss. Gen. 231. 1789. CROWFOOT FAMILY. Annual or perennial herbs, or rarely climbing shrubs, with acrid sap. Leaves alternate (except in ..."

3. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"... The foliage contains also a highly acrid volatile principle, perhaps chemically not unlike that of many other Ranunculaceae. ..."

4. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"... ADDENDA Ranunculaceae (pp. 14-20). 1. THERE is little to add to the REVIEW OF ANATOMICAL FEATURES given in the earlier part of this book. ..."

5. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy: Intended for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"HYDRASTIS—GOLDEN SEAL.—The dried rhizome and roots of Hydrastis canadensis (Fam. Ranunculaceae), a perennial herb (Fig. 89) indigenous to the eastern ..."

6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"... Australian plants in the class of Dicotyledons, and in this volume he embraces the Polypetalous orders, extending from Ranunculaceae to Anacardiaceae, ..."

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