Definition of Ambrosiaceae

1. Noun. In some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambrosiaceae

Amblyrhynchus
Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Ambonese
Ambonese Malay
Ambrak
Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti
Ambrose
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Everett Burnside
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Ambrosia psilostachya
Ambrosia trifida
Ambrosiaceae
Ambrosian
Ambu bag
Ambulas
Ambystoma maculatum
Ambystoma mexicanum
Ambystoma talpoideum
Ambystoma tigrinum
Amdang
Amdo Tibetan
Ameche
Ameches
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Modigliano
Ameiuridae

Literary usage of Ambrosiaceae

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)
"3: 261. Stamens distinct, or nearly so. Fam. 42. ambrosiaceae. 3:292. Stamens united by their anthers into a tube around the style (except in ..."

2. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt (1891)
"... hat Link eine Familie zusammengesetzt, welche er ale ambrosiaceae- bezeichnet. Verf. überträgt diesen Namen auch auf die anderen Gattungen,, ..."

3. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Iowa by Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick (1899)
"... of the Compositae, the ambrosiaceae, und типу of the ... tubular or the outer ligulate; juice rarely milky. Stamens distinct or nearly so. ambrosiaceae ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"The ambrosiaceae, or ragweed family, are composed of small greenish flowers, which in the absence of insects have reverted to wind-fertilization. ..."

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