Definition of Boraginaceae

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Boraginaceae

Booleans
Boomers
Boon Lay
Boone
Boontling
Boophilus
Boophilus annulatus
Boophilus decoloratus
Boophilus microplus
Boot Hill
Booter
Booters
Bootnik
Bootniks
Boott's goldenrod
Boraginaceae (current term)
Borago
Borago officinalis
Borazon
Borda count
Borda counts
Bordeau theory
Bordeaux
Bordeaux mixture
Bordeaux wine
Border Collie
Border collie
Border terrier

Literary usage of Boraginaceae

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)
"Corolla regular (irregular in Echium of the Boraginaceae). ... Boraginaceae. 3: 5o. b. Corolla irregular, more or less 2-lipped (regular in Solanaceae, ..."

2. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"Cynoglossum, in Boraginaceae. Ovary deeply four-parted; nutlets inserted by their ... Plagiobothrys, in Boraginaceae. Fruit a one-celled capsule with a free ..."

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