Definition of Portulacaceae

1. Noun. Family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Portulacaceae

Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese Republic
Portuguese Sign Language
Portuguese Water Dog
Portuguese Water Dogs
Portuguese West Africa
Portuguese cypress
Portuguese escudo
Portuguese heath
Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese men-of-war
Portuguese monetary unit
Portugueseness
Portulaca grandiflora
Portulaca oleracea
Portulacaceae (current term)
Portunidae
Portunus
Portunus puber
Portuñol
Portwood
Porzana
Porzana porzana
Poseidon
Posh
Poshto
Post-It
Post-Zionism
Post-Zionist

Literary usage of Portulacaceae

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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Portulacaceae Reichenb. Consp. 161. 1828. PURSLANE FAMILY. Herbs, generally fleshy or succulent, rarely somewhat woody, with alternate or opposite leaves, ..."

2. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"... soap-like lather when its bruised leaves are agitated in water. 'PURSLANE FAMILY (Portulacaceae) Spring Beauty; Claytonia Claytonia virginica ..."

3. A Popular California Flora: Or, Manual of Botany for Beginners ... : to by Volney Rattan (1888)
"Sepals 2; style 3-cleft Portulacaceae, 29 Sepals united; styles 5 Plumbaginaceae, 71 Stamens 10, on the receptacle; stigma 5-lobed Ericaceae, 68 Stamens 10, ..."

4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... by general consent, does not belong to the group in question. belong to the family Portulacaceae, the name Portulacaceae would have to be Examples. ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Portulacaceae Reichenb. Consp. 161. 1828. PURSLANE FAMILY. Herbs, generally fleshy or succulent, rarely somewhat woody, with alternate or opposite leaves, ..."

6. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"... soap-like lather when its bruised leaves are agitated in water. 'PURSLANE FAMILY (Portulacaceae) Spring Beauty; Claytonia Claytonia virginica ..."

7. A Popular California Flora: Or, Manual of Botany for Beginners ... : to by Volney Rattan (1888)
"Sepals 2; style 3-cleft Portulacaceae, 29 Sepals united; styles 5 Plumbaginaceae, 71 Stamens 10, on the receptacle; stigma 5-lobed Ericaceae, 68 Stamens 10, ..."

8. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... by general consent, does not belong to the group in question. belong to the family Portulacaceae, the name Portulacaceae would have to be Examples. ..."

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