Definition of Family convolvulaceae

1. Noun. Morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Convolvulaceae

family Clusiaceae
family Cobitidae
family Coccidae
family Coccinellidae
family Coerebidae
family Colchicaceae
family Colubridae
family Columbidae
family Comatulidae
family Combretaceae
family Commelinaceae
family Compositae
family Congridae
family Connaraceae
family Convallariaceae
family Convolvulaceae
family Coprinaceae
family Coraciidae
family Cordaitaceae
family Cordylidae
family Coregonidae
family Coreidae
family Corixidae
family Cornaceae
family Cortinariaceae
family Corvidae
family Corydalidae
family Corylaceae
family Corynebacteriaceae
family Coryphaenidae

Literary usage of Family convolvulaceae

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)
"... more than double their length, much surpassing the stigma. Missouri and Arkansas to Georgia. May-June. Family. CONVOLVULACEAE Vent. Tabl. 2: 394. 1799. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family convolvulaceae. Morning-glory Family. Contains about 40 genera and nearly 1000 species, of wide distribution. They are herbs or vines, rarely shrubs ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Mostly herbs, rarely shrubs and trees. Fifteen families in the eastern United States. The morning-glory family (Convolvulaceae) includes the ..."

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