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Definition of Primrose family
1. Noun. A dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Primulales, Primulales
Member holonyms: Genus Primula, Anagallis, Genus Anagallis, Centunculus, Genus Centunculus, Genus Cyclamen, Genus Glaux, Glaux, Genus Hottonia, Hottonia, Genus Lysimachia, Lysimachia, Genus Samolus, Samolus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primrose Family
Literary usage of Primrose family
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)
"primrose family. Herbs, with alternate opposite verticillate or basal leaves,
and perfect regular flowers, in terminal or axillary racemes, spikes, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"primrose family. 1799. Herbs, with alternate opposite verticillate or basal
leaves, and perfect regular flowers, in terminal or axillary racemes, spikes, ..."
3. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"(primrose family.) Herbs with »implo leaves and regular perfect flowers, the
stamens as many as the lobes of the gamopetalous corolla and inserted opposite ..."
4. Blossom Hosts and Insect Guests: How the Heath Family, the Bluets, the by William Hamilton Gibson, Eleanor E. Davie (1901)
"Night after night for weeks this beautiful member of the primrose family breathes
its fragrant invitation as its luminous blooms flash out one by one from ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... primrose family. Herbs with regular perfect flowers, the stamens borne on the
corolla and as many as its divisions and opposite them, one style and ..."
6. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"primrose family (Primulaceae) Four-leaved or Whorled Loosestrife; Crosswort
Lysimachia quadrifolia Flowers—Yellow, streaked with dark red, £ in. across or ..."
7. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... primrose family. Herbs with regular perfect flowers, the stamens borne on the
corolla, and as many as its divisions and opposite them, one style and ..."
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