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Meanings of family Papilionacea in English

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papilionàcies

Leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae.

        papilionàcies
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        Examples for "Papilionaceae"
        1
        This tree belongs to the natural order Leguminosae, sub-order Papilionaceae.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        2
        The flowers of the Papilionaceae attracted his attention early, and were the subject of his first paper on fertilisation.
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
        3
        Papilionaceae; it could, however, in the absence of experimental proof, be regarded only as a "working hypothesis."
        Darwin and Modern Science
        Translations for family Papilionacea