Definition of Family papaveraceae

1. Noun. Herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Papaveraceae

family Ostraciontidae
family Ostreidae
family Otariidae
family Otididae
family Oxalidaceae
family Oxyuridae
family Paeoniaceae
family Paguridae
family Palaemonidae
family Palinuridae
family Palmaceae
family Palmae
family Pandanaceae
family Pandionidae
family Panorpidae
family Papaveraceae
family Papilionacea
family Paradisaeidae
family Paridae
family Parkeriaceae
family Parmeliaceae
family Parulidae
family Patellidae
family Pectinidae
family Pedaliaceae
family Pediculidae
family Pelecanidae
family Pelecanoididae

Literary usage of Family papaveraceae

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

1. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"Country people sometimes rob the birds of the acid berries to make preserves. The wood furnishes a yellow dye. POPPY FAMILY (Papaveraceae) Bloodroot; ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family papaveraceae. Poppy Family. Contains about 25 genera and 200 species, of wide distribution, but most abundant in the north temperate zone. ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples are: The poppy family (Papaveraceae), including the opium or garden poppy (Papaver somniferum), the blood-root (Sangui- naria canadensis), ..."

4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples are: The poppy family (Papaveraceae), including the opium or garden poppy (Papaver somniferum), the blood-root (Sangui- naria canadensis), ..."

5. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"The poppy family (papaveraceae). —One of the commonest of the members of this family in the eastern United States is the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). ..."

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