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Definition of Family Portulacaceae
1. Noun. Family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, Order Caryophyllales, Order-chenopodiales
Member holonyms: Genus Portulaca, Calandrinia, Genus Calandrinia, Claytonia, Genus Claytonia, Genus Lewisia, Lewisia, Genus Montia, Montia, Genus Spraguea, Spraguea, Genus Talinum, Talinum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Portulacaceae
Literary usage of Family Portulacaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"... soap-like lather when its bruised leaves are agitated in water. 'PURSLANE
FAMILY (Portulacaceae) Spring Beauty; Claytonia Claytonia virginica ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... by general consent, does not belong to the group in question. belong to the
family Portulacaceae, the name Portulacaceae would have to be Examples. ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"the purslane family (Portulacaceae, including the purslane or "pursley," Portulaca
oleracea, and the spring-beauty, Claytonia virginica), ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... the Amaranth family (Amaranthaceae), the purslane family (Portulacaceae,
including the purslane or "pursley," Portulaca oleracea ..."
5. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"The purslane family (portulacaceae).—The little spring beauty (Clay- tonia
virginica), shown in fig. 349, is a member of this family. ..."
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