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Definition of Family gentianaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Gentianales, Order Gentianales
Member holonyms: Centaurium, Genus Centaurium, Eustoma, Genus Eustoma, Exacum, Genus Exacum, Frasera, Genus Frasera, Gentiana, Genus Gentiana, Gentian, Gentianella, Genus Gentianella, Gentianopsis, Genus Gentianopsis, Genus Halenia, Halenia, Genus Sabbatia, Genus Swertia, Swertia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Gentianaceae
Literary usage of Family gentianaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Family. GENTIANACEAE Dumort. Anal. Fam. 20.. GENTIAN FAMILY Bitter mostly quite
glabrous herbs, with opposite (rarely verticillate) exstipulate entire ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The gentian family (Gentianaceae) among other genera includes the gentians (Gentiana).
The milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae) contains plants mostly with a ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"As the name suggests, the gentian family (Gentianaceae) is the characteristic
representative of the alliance. The curious and highly specialized milkweeds ..."
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