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Definition of Amaranthaceae
1. Noun. Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.
Exact synonyms: Amaranth Family, Family Amaranthaceae
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, Order Caryophyllales, Order-chenopodiales
Member holonyms: Amaranthus, Genus Amaranthus, Alternanthera, Genus Alternanthera, Celosia, Genus Celosia, Froelichia, Genus Froelichia, Genus Gomphrena, Gomphrena, Genus Iresine, Iresine, Genus Telanthera, Telanthera
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, Order Caryophyllales, Order-chenopodiales
Member holonyms: Amaranthus, Genus Amaranthus, Alternanthera, Genus Alternanthera, Celosia, Genus Celosia, Froelichia, Genus Froelichia, Genus Gomphrena, Gomphrena, Genus Iresine, Iresine, Genus Telanthera, Telanthera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amaranthaceae
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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