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Definition of Family Linaceae
1. Noun. A widely distributed family of plants.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Member holonyms: Genus Linum, Linum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Linaceae
Literary usage of Family Linaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Herb Robert. Cranesbill. Wood-sorrel Family (Oxalidaceae) Wood-sorrels.
Flax Family (Linaceae) Flax. Slender yellow and Ridged flax. ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Linaceae. Flax Family. Includes 4 genera and about 150 species of wide
geographic distribution in both temperate and tropical regions. ..."
3. The Town of St. Johnsbury, Vt.: A Review of One Hundred Twenty-five Years to by Edward Taylor Fairbanks (1914)
"... Common Coru Thyme-leaved Turtlehead Flax family Linaceae Flax, Common Four-o'clock
Family Nyctaginaceae ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The wood-sorrel family (Oxalidaceae), with the wood-sorrel (Oxalis acetosella)
and others. The flax family (Linaceae). Example, flax (Linum vul- garis). ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The flax family (Linaceae). Example, flax (Linum vul- garis). The spurge
family (Euphorbiaceae). Plants with a milky juice, and curious, degenerate flowers. ..."
6. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"Between the Pea family and the Spurge family is usually placed the Flax
family (Linaceae) to which the cultivated Flax ..."
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