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Definition of Family papaveraceae
1. Noun. Herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Papaverales, Order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, Rhoeadales
Member holonyms: Poppy, Genus Papaver, Papaver, Genus Argemone, Genus Bocconia, Chelidonium, Genus Chelidonium, Corydalis, Genus Corydalis, Dendromecon, Genus Dendromecon, Eschscholtzia, Genus Eschscholtzia, Genus Glaucium, Glaucium, Genus Hunnemania, Hunnemannia, Genus Macleaya, Macleaya, Genus Meconopsis, Meconopsis, Genus Platystemon, Platystemon, Genus Romneya, Romneya, Genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria, Genus Stylomecon, Stylomecon, Genus Stylophorum, Stylophorum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Papaveraceae
Literary usage of Family papaveraceae
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)
"Country people sometimes rob the birds of the acid berries to make preserves.
The wood furnishes a yellow dye. POPPY FAMILY (Papaveraceae) Bloodroot; ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family papaveraceae. Poppy Family. Contains about 25 genera and 200 species, of
wide distribution, but most abundant in the north temperate zone. ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples are: The poppy family (Papaveraceae), including the opium or garden
poppy (Papaver somniferum), the blood-root (Sangui- naria canadensis), ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples are: The poppy family (Papaveraceae), including the opium or garden
poppy (Papaver somniferum), the blood-root (Sangui- naria canadensis), ..."
5. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"The poppy family (papaveraceae). —One of the commonest of the members of this
family in the eastern United States is the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). ..."
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