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Meanings of sunflower family in English
The second largest family of flowering plants, after Orchidaceae, in terms of number of species.
Synonyms
Examples for "compositae"
Examples for "compositae"
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Mints, gilias, nemophilas, castilleias, and innumerable compositae were so crowded together that, had ninety-nine per cent.
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The most characteristic of the newcomers at this elevation above the sea are principally sun-loving gilias, eriogonae, and compositae, and finally forest-trees.
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They showed us a plant of the compositae order, twenty feet high (the Eupatorium laevigatum of Lamarck), the rose of Belveria,* (* Brownea racemosa.)
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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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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.
Usage of sunflower family in English
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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.