Rosaceae

Noun

Meaning

a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Examples

Fruits and seeds The fruits occur in many varieties and were once considered the main characters for the definition of subfamilies amongst Rosaceae, giving rise to a fundamentally artificial subdivision. Source: Internet

The flowers of the Rosaceae family always have some type of hypanthium or at least a floral cup from which the sepals, petals and stamens all arise. Source: Internet

It consisted of the family Rosaceae and 23 other families that are now placed in various other orders. Source: Internet

It exists in French too but is written aide de camp (without any hyphens). ; cinquefoil : five-petal, five-leaf flower of the genus Potentilla, family Rosaceae; also a circular 5-lobed ornamental design. Source: Internet

The basal clade consists of the family Rosaceae; another clade consists of four families, including Rhamnaceae; and the third clade consists of the four urticalean families. Source: Internet

The largest of these families are Rosaceae (90/2500) and Urticaceae (54/2600). Source: Internet

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