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Definition of Papilionaceae
1. Noun. Leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Fabaceae, Family Fabaceae, Family Leguminosae, Legume Family, Leguminosae, Pea Family
Lexicographical Neighbors of Papilionaceae
Literary usage of Papilionaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... is found in the flower of the papilionaceae', only the progression is towards
the posterior side, that is to say towards the inflorescence-axis. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... papilionaceae. 28. GLYCYRRHIZA L. Sp. Pl. 741. 1753. [Voi,. II. Perennial herbs,
with thick sweet roots, odd-pinnate leaves, and spicate or capitate ..."
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