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Meanings of Compositae in English
The second largest family of flowering plants, after Orchidaceae, in terms of number of species.
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Examples for "asteraceae"
Examples for "asteraceae"
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This species belongs to the Asteraceae family and is endemic to the Mediterranean region.
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A widespread summer weed in the aster family; it is native to North America but has become invasive worldwide.
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Among these are (or were, for some of them are now extinct) forest trees belonging to the daisy family.
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The wild slender button daisy , a small creeping member of the daisy family, was also rediscovered at Molesworth Station - by Wairau ranger Jan Clayton-Greene.
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Jerusalem artichokes come from North America and are part of the sunflower family.
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They arrived, all dirty and knobbly, looking more like a sad potato than a member of the sunflower family.
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The advancing summer introduces many flowers of the sunflower family, until in August the plains are one blaze of yellow and purple.
Usage of Compositae in English
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In the Compositae, Cnicus palustris and acaulis are said by Sir J.E.
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I was struck with your remark about the Compositae, etc.
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Muller, H., on the frequency of visits by insects to the Umbelliferae and Compositae.
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I find both sexes wassailing on the flowers, especially the Compositae, the centauries and thistles.
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Lactuca sativa (Compositae).-Coveredplants produced some seeds, but the summer was wet and unfavourable.
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Senecio cruentus (Compositae).-Quitesterile: see my account of self-sterileplants.
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W. charged into the Compositae and Umbelliferae like a hero, and demolished ever so many in grand style.
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He is even able to leave the family of the Compositae and to go gleaning more or less everywhere.
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The plants should be treated in the same manner as the ordinary Asters of the garden or other perennial Compositae.
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The largest bush in the island (belonging to the family of Compositae) is scarcely so tall as our gorse.
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Owing to other occupations I was able to read only yesterday your paper on the dispersal of the seeds of Compositae.
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I now find to my surprise that herons do feed sometimes on {illegible} fruit; and grebes on seeds of Compositae.
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Gazania ringens (Compositae, Fam.
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Helianthus annuus (Compositae).-Theupper part of the hypocotyl moved during the day-timein the course shown in the annexed figure (Fig.
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The lettuce family, or the Compositae, is the second largest family of flowering plants, and yet it contributes only a few food plants.
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In the so-called double flowers of the Compositae, the corollas of the central florets are greatly modified, and the modifications are likewise inherited.
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Compositae through the time