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Definition of Geranium family
1. Noun. Chiefly herbaceous plants.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Geraniales, Order Geraniales
Member holonyms: Geranium, Genus Geranium, Genus Pelargonium, Pelargonium, Erodium, Genus Erodium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Geranium Family
Literary usage of Geranium family
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)
"geranium family. Herbs with alternate or opposite leaves, and axillary solitary
or clustered perfect regular flowers. Stipules commonly present. ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"It may be, however, as Dr. Gray said about the May apple's fruit, that they are
eaten by pigs and boys. THE geranium family. ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... geranium family. As now received, a large and multifarious order, not to be
characterized as a whole in any short and easy way, including as it does ..."
4. Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Warner Morley (1897)
"THE geranium family. THE Geranium People are rather unsettled as to their
relatives — or, rather, we are somewhat confused on the subject. ..."
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