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Definition of Family Campanulaceae
1. Noun. Family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Group relationships: Campanulales, Order Campanulales
Member holonyms: Genus Campanula, Genus Lobelia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Campanulaceae
Literary usage of Family Campanulaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Campanulaceae. Bell-flower Family. These are herbs, shrubs or trees, with
an acrid, milky juice and perfect flowers. Calyx adherent to the ovary ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The bell-flower family (Campanulaceae) includes the harebells or
bell-flowers (Campanula), the lobelias (example, Lobelia cardinalis, the
cardinal-flower), ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The bell-flower family (Campanulaceae) includes the harebells or
bell-flowers (Campanula), the lobelias (example, ..."
4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"... family Campanulaceae. 394 P- Ulf pi- Honolulu, Feb. 20, 1919.] Torreya 19:
228-230. 1919.—The flora of the Hawaiian Islands has been long noted for its ..."