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Definition of Rose family
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 Rose Family
Literary usage of Rose 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, Addison Brown (1897)
"ROCK-rose family. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple
leaves, and solitary racemose clustered or paniculate flowers. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"ROCK-rose family. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple
leaves, and solitary racemose clustered or paniculate flowers. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"ROCK-rose family. Shrubs or low woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple
leaves, and solitary racemose clustered or paniculate flowers. ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"... bodily heirs," then to the rose family, Indicating a purpose for them to have
the property If children were born, although they did not live to be 21. ..."
5. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"rose family. A large family of trees, shrubs and herbs, including many of our
cultivated fruits and ornamental plants. Genus PYRUS. ..."
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