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Definition of Amaranth family
1. Noun. Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs.
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 Amaranth Family
Literary usage of Amaranth family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"... (amaranth family.) Herbs with entire leaves destitute of stipules, small
flowers which are usually subtended by scarious bracts and have a persistent ..."
2. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"amaranth family. Stamens with distinct filaments: ovule i in each cavity.
Perianth present in all flowers. i. AMARANTHUS. Perianth wanting in the pistillate ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... amaranth family. Weeds and some ornamental plants, chiefly herbs, essentially
like the next family, but the flowers provided with dry and mostly ..."
4. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"... amaranth family. AMARANTUS, Tourn. AMARANTH. A. retroflexus, L. Pigweed.
Red-root. A common weed throughout the state. A. albus, L. Tumble-weed. ..."
5. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... amaranth family. Weeds and some ornamental plants, chiefly herbs, essentially
like the next family, but the flowers provided with dry and mostly ..."
6. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"... amaranth family. account of their colored dry bracts which do not wither.
Weeds arid some ornamental plants, chiefly herbs, essentially like the ..."
7. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"THE amaranth family.— Amaranta'ceee. Herbaceous plants, with simple, undivided,
entire leaves, and minute flowers, consisting of calyx only, ..."
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