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Definition of Family Pedaliaceae
1. Noun. The family of plants of order Polemoniales.
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Group relationships: Order Polemoniales, Polemoniales
Member holonyms: Genus Martynia, Genus Sesamum, Sesamum, Genus Proboscidea, Proboscidea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pedaliaceae
Literary usage of Family Pedaliaceae
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 Pedaliaceae. Sesame Family. This is not a large group, containing only
about 10 genera and 25 species. The plants are annual or perennial, ..."
2. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Pedaliaceae : Herbs with mostly opposite leaves ; ovary 1-, 2 , or 4-celled
with parietal or axile placentae ; seeds 1 to many wilh- out endosperm. ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"Indeed the whole family Pedaliaceae is of interest on account of its multifariously
hooked fruits. In addition to Martynia the already mentioned ..."
4. Sino-Iranica: Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in by Berthold Laufer (1919)
"Unfortunately it is only too true that the Chinese confound Sesamum indicum (family
Pedaliaceae) and Linum usitatissimum (family Linaceae) in the single ..."
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