We found 1 definitions of family amaranthaceae from 1 different sources.
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family amaranthaceae - cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs | ||
Amaranthaceae, family Amaranthaceae, amaranth family | ||
caryophylloid dicot family family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers | ||
caryophyllales, chenopodiales, order-chenopodiales, order caryophyllales corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae | ||
amaranthus, genus amaranthus large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs | ||
alternanthera, genus alternanthera genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera | ||
celosia, genus celosia annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa | ||
froelichia, genus froelichia genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed | ||
genus gomphrena, gomphrena genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia | ||
genus iresine, iresine genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs |