Definition of Papilionaceae

1. Noun. Leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Papilionaceae

Papaveraceae
Papaverales
Papaw
Pape
Papeete
Paper Scissors Stone
Papertsian
Papes
Papez circuit
Paphians
Paphiopedilum
Paphlagonia
Papiamento
Papiamentu
Papilionaceae (current term)
Papilionoideae
Papillon-Leage and Psaume syndrome
Papio ursinus
Papovaviridae
Pappenheim
Pappenheim's stain
Pappenheimer
Pappenheimer bodies
Pappy
Paprilus
Paprilus alepidotus
Papua

Literary usage of Papilionaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... is found in the flower of the Papilionaceae', only the progression is towards the posterior side, that is to say towards the inflorescence-axis. ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... Papilionaceae. 28. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Sp. Pl. 741. 1753. [Voi,. II. Perennial herbs, with thick sweet roots, odd-pinnate leaves, and spicate or capitate ..."

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