Definition of Amaranthaceae

1. Noun. Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Amaranthaceae

Amalias
Amami rabbit
Amami rabbits
Amanab
Amanda
Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin
Amanita caesarea
Amanita mappa
Amanita muscaria
Amanita rubescens
Amanita verna
Amapá
Amara
Amarag
Amarakaeri
Amaranthaceae (current term)
Amaranthus
Amaranthus albus
Amaranthus caudatus
Amaranthus cruentus
Amaranthus graecizans
Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys
Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus
Amaranthus hypochondriacus
Amaranthus spinosus
Amarasi
Amarillo
Amaryllidaceae
Amaryllis belladonna
Amata

Literary usage of Amaranthaceae

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)
"Amaranthaceae J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam.: 204.. AMARANTH FAMILY. Herbs, some exotic genera low shrubs, with alternate or opposite simple mostly entire thin ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"In Amaranthaceae the pedicels are furnished with bracts which resemble the perianth- segments and, like them, envelop the fruit. ..."

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