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Definition of Haloragidaceae
1. Noun. A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Myrtales, Order Myrtales, Order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales
Member holonyms: Genus Myriophyllum, Myriophyllum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haloragidaceae
Literary usage of Haloragidaceae
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)
"... Jesuit's Haloragidaceae Kl. & Garcke, Bot. Erg. Wald. 151. WATER-MILFOIL FAMILY.
1852. Perennial or rarely annual herbs, mainly aquatic, with alternate ..."
2. Annual Report by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1915)
"Haloragidaceae. WATER MILFOIL FAMILY HIPPURIS. Mare's-tail H. vulgaris L. Rare;
in cold springy margin of Joe's Pond, West Danville, (Blanchard); ..."
3. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"... with the exception of the group Haloragidaceae, the union of the carpels is
complete, extending also to the stigmas. The vegetative organs of this order ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"In the Haloragidaceae, or water-milfoil family, the petals are small or wanting
and the flowers are wind-fertilized. The species are mainly aquatic. ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... 594 Styles or sessile stigmas 4 Haloragidaceae, 602 n. Petals more or less
united II Stamens more numerous than the lobes of the corolla JJ Ovary ..."