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Definition of Rosaceae
1. Noun. A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rosales, Rosales
Member holonyms: Genus Rosa, Rosa, Genus Agrimonia, Amelanchier, Genus Amelanchier, Chaenomeles, Genus Chaenomeles, Chrysobalanus, Genus Chrysobalanus, Genus Cotoneaster, Crataegus, Genus Crataegus, Cydonia, Genus Cydonia, Dryas, Genus Dryas, Eriobotrya, Genus Eriobotrya, Fragaria, Genus Fragaria, Genus Geum, Geum, Genus Heteromeles, Heteromeles, Genus Malus, Malus, Genus Mespilus, Mespilus, Genus Photinia, Photinia, Genus Potentilla, Potentilla, Genus Poterium, Poterium, Genus Prunus, Prunus, Amygdalaceae, Family Amygdalaceae, Genus Pyracantha, Genus Pyrus, Pyrus, Genus Rubus, Rubus, Genus Sorbus, Sorbus, Genus Spiraea, Spiraea
Derivative terms: Rosaceous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosaceae
Literary usage of Rosaceae
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 (1897)
"Rosaceae B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. ROSE FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with
alternate (in some exotic genera opposite), simple or compound leaves, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Rosaceae B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. ROSE FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with
alternate (in some exotic genera opposite}, simple or compound leaves, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Rosaceae B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. ROSE FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with
alternate (in some exotic genera opposite), simple or compound leaves, ..."
4. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1912)
"the greatest amount of damage belong to the Family Rosaceae— which includes all
common deciduous fruits. Sanderson gives thp THE PUTNAM SCALE. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"182), one In a pentamerous flower one sepal may be superior, as in the calyx of
Rosaceae and Labiate ; or it may be inferior, as in the calyx of Leguminosas ..."
6. Rambles on the Riviera by Eduard Strasburger (1906)
"At a distance the tree looks like our flowering Elder, and at the first glance
one would hardly take it for one of the Rosaceae. Another interesting plant ..."
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