Definition of Family gentianaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Gentianaceae

family Fucaceae
family Fulgoridae
family Fumariaceae
family Funkaceae
family Furnariidae
family Gadidae
family Galbulidae
family Gasterophilidae
family Gasterosteidae
family Gavialidae
family Gavidae
family Geastraceae
family Gekkonidae
family Gelechiidae
family Gempylidae
family Gentianaceae
family Geoglossaceae
family Geometridae
family Geomyidae
family Geophilidae
family Geraniaceae
family Gerreidae
family Gerridae
family Gerrididae
family Gesneriaceae
family Gigartinaceae
family Ginkgoaceae
family Giraffidae
family Glareolidae
family Gleicheniaceae

Literary usage of Family gentianaceae

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)
"Family. GENTIANACEAE Dumort. Anal. Fam. 20.. GENTIAN FAMILY Bitter mostly quite glabrous herbs, with opposite (rarely verticillate) exstipulate entire ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The gentian family (Gentianaceae) among other genera includes the gentians (Gentiana). The milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae) contains plants mostly with a ..."

3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"As the name suggests, the gentian family (Gentianaceae) is the characteristic representative of the alliance. The curious and highly specialized milkweeds ..."

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