Definition of Rosaceae

1. Noun. A large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosaceae

Rory
Ros
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Rosa banksia
Rosa canina
Rosa chinensis
Rosa damascena
Rosa eglanteria
Rosa laevigata
Rosa moschata
Rosa multiflora
Rosa odorata
Rosa pendulina
Rosa spithamaea
Rosaceae
Rosai-Dorman disease
Rosaleen
Rosalie
Rosalind
Rosaline
Rosalyn
Rosamond
Rosamund
Rosanna
Rosanne
Roscian
Roscoe
Roscoe-Bunsen law
Rose

Literary usage of Rosaceae

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, Addison Brown (1897)
"rosaceae B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. ROSE FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate (in some exotic genera opposite), simple or compound leaves, ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"rosaceae B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. ROSE FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate (in some exotic genera opposite}, simple or compound leaves, ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"rosaceae B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. ROSE FAMILY. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate (in some exotic genera opposite), simple or compound leaves, ..."

4. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1912)
"the greatest amount of damage belong to the Family rosaceae— which includes all common deciduous fruits. Sanderson gives thp THE PUTNAM SCALE. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"182), one In a pentamerous flower one sepal may be superior, as in the calyx of rosaceae and Labiate ; or it may be inferior, as in the calyx of Leguminosas ..."

6. Rambles on the Riviera by Eduard Strasburger (1906)
"At a distance the tree looks like our flowering Elder, and at the first glance one would hardly take it for one of the rosaceae. Another interesting plant ..."

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