Definition of Family pontederiaceae

1. Noun. Aquatic or bog plants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Pontederiaceae

family Podicipedidae
family Podocarpaceae
family Poeciliidae
family Polemoniaceae
family Polyangiaceae
family Polygalaceae
family Polygonaceae
family Polynemidae
family Polyodontidae
family Polypedatidae
family Polypodiaceae
family Polyporaceae
family Pomacentridae
family Pomatomidae
family Pongidae
family Pontederiaceae
family Porcellionidae
family Portulacaceae
family Portunidae
family Potamogalidae
family Potamogetonaceae
family Priacanthidae
family Primulaceae
family Pristidae
family Procaviidae
family Procellariidae
family Procyonidae
family Proteaceae
family Proteidae
family Prunellidae

Literary usage of Family pontederiaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... several species in North America); the pickerel-weed family (Pontederiaceae), including the genus Pontederia in borders of ponds and streams. 1196. ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... spiderwort family (Commelinaceae), including the spiderwort (Tradescantia, several species in North America); the pickerel-weed family (Pontederiaceae ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"family pontederiaceae. Pickerel-weed Family. Every fisherman knows the pickerel-weed (Pontederia), which, with its wand-like spikes of blue flowers and ..."

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