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leadwort family — noun perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas • Syn: ↑Plumbaginaceae, ↑family Plumbaginaceae, ↑sea lavender family • Derivationally related forms: ↑plumbaginaceous (for: ↑Plumbaginaceae … Useful english dictionary
leadwort family — lead′wort fam ily n. pln a family, Plumbaginaceae, of shrubs and nonwoody plants, having basal or alternate leaves and spikes of tubular flowers: includes leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift … From formal English to slang
family Plumbaginaceae — noun perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas • Syn: ↑Plumbaginaceae, ↑leadwort family, ↑sea lavender family • Derivationally related forms: ↑plumbaginaceous (for: ↑Plumbaginaceae) … Useful english dictionary
Leadwort — is a common name for flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, in particular those in the genera: * Ceratostigma * Plumbago … Wikipedia
leadwort — [led′wʉrt΄] n. [ LEAD2 + WORT2] any of several shrubby plants (genus Plumbago) of a family (Plumbaginaceae, order Plumbaginales) of dicotyledonous plants grown for their ornamental white, blue, or red flowers, esp. in warm climates … English World dictionary
dicot family — noun family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑magnoliopsid family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑hamamelid dicot family, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
magnoliopsid family — noun family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑dicot family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑hamamelid dicot family, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
sea-lavender family — noun perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas • Syn: ↑Plumbaginaceae, ↑family Plumbaginaceae, ↑leadwort family • Derivationally related forms: ↑plumbaginaceous (for: ↑Plumbaginaceae) … Useful english dictionary
Caryophyllales — ▪ plant order Introduction pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 33 families, which contain more than 11,000 species in 692 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen… … Universalium
Plumbaginaceae — Taxobox name = Plumbaginaceae image width = 240px image caption = Plumbago europaea regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Caryophyllales familia = Plumbaginaceae familia authority = Juss. (1789) subdivision ranks … Wikipedia
