Definition of Family Boraginaceae

1. Noun. A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Boraginaceae

family Berberidaceae
family Betulaceae
family Bible
family Bignoniaceae
family Bittacidae
family Blastodiaceae
family Blattidae
family Blechnaceae
family Blenniidae
family Boidae
family Boletaceae
family Bombacaceae
family Bombycidae
family Bombycillidae
family Bombyliidae
family Boraginaceae (current term)
family Bothidae
family Bovidae
family Bradypodidae
family Bramidae
family Branchiobdellidae
family Branchiostegidae
family Branchiostomidae
family Brevicipitidae
family Bromeliaceae
family Brotulidae
family Bruchidae
family Bryaceae
family Buccinidae

Literary usage of Family Boraginaceae

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

1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The borage family (Boraginaceae) includes the heliotrope (Heliotropium), the hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum), the forget- me-not (Myosotis), and others. ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The borage family (Boraginaceae) includes the heliotrope (Heliotropium), the hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum), the forget- me-not (Myosotis), and others. ..."

3. Vegetable Gardening by Samuel Bowdlear Green (1915)
"The Borage Family (Boraginaceae),—borage. THE FUNGI The Fungi group includes a large number of flowerless ..."

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