Definition of Bellflower family

1. Noun. Family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae.

Exact synonyms: Campanulaceae, Family Campanulaceae
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Group relationships: Campanulales, Order Campanulales
Member holonyms: Genus Campanula, Genus Lobelia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bellflower Family

bellend
bellends
bellerophon
bellerophons
belles
belles-lettres
belles-lettristic
belles lettres
belleter
belleters
belletrism
belletrist
belletristic
belletrists
bellflower
bellflower family (current term)
bellflowers
bellfounder
bellfounders
bellgirl
bellgirls
bellhop
bellhops
bellibone
bellibones
bellicism
bellicist
bellicists
bellicose
bellicosely

Literary usage of Bellflower family

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

1. Michigan Flora: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by William James Beal (1904)
"bellflower family. CAMPANULA L. *1961. C. Americana L. Tall Bellflower. Moist woodlands. Ionia Co.; Flint; Macomb Co.; Ann Arbor, Winch. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"bellflower family. Herbs (some tropical species shrubs or even trees), with alternate exstipulate leaves, usually milky juice, and racemose spicate ..."

3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"... bellflower family. Flowers regular : corolla campanulate or rotate : anthers separate. Corolla campanulate, or rotate in C. Americana : flowers all ..."

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