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Definition of Family Convolvulaceae
1. Noun. Morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Polemoniales, Polemoniales
Member holonyms: Genus Convolvulus, Bindweed, Argyreia, Genus Argyreia, Calystegia, Genus Calystegia, Cuscuta, Genus Cuscuta, Genus Dichondra, Genus Ipomoea, Ipomoea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Convolvulaceae
Literary usage of Family Convolvulaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"... more than double their length, much surpassing the stigma. Missouri and Arkansas
to Georgia. May-June. Family. CONVOLVULACEAE Vent. Tabl. 2: 394. 1799. ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Convolvulaceae. Morning-glory Family. Contains about 40 genera and nearly
1000 species, of wide distribution. They are herbs or vines, rarely shrubs ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Mostly herbs, rarely shrubs and trees. Fifteen families in the eastern United
States. The morning-glory family (Convolvulaceae) includes the ..."
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