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Cruciferae

noun
1.
A large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives.  Synonyms: Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, family Cruciferae, mustard family.






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"Cruciferae" Quotes from Famous Books



... its summit. Here we find a good deal of open ground, with thickets of shrubby Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries, Sow-thistles, Chickweed, white and yellow Cruciferae Plantain, and annual grasses everywhere abound. Where there are bushes and shrubs, the St. John's-wort and Honeysuckle grow abundantly, while the Imperial Cowslip only exhibits its elegant blossoms under the damp shade of ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... to flourish in the sands of African and Indian deserts, grow abundantly. Common weeds of cultivation are Fumaria parviflora, a near relation of the English fumitory, Silene conoidea, and two Spergulas (Caryophyllaceae), and Sisymbrium Irio (Cruciferae). A curious little Orchid, Zeuxine sulcata, is found growing among the grass on canal banks. The American yellow poppy, Argemone Mexicana, a noxious weed, has unfortunately established itself widely in the Panjab ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie



Words linked to "Cruciferae" :   wasabi, Cochlearia, genus Barbarea, Brassica, Lunaria, genus Alliaria, Hesperis, Lesquerella, alyssum, Stanleya, mustard family, genus Nasturtium, genus Rorippa, genus Berteroa, genus Erysimum, Stephanomeria, genus Crambe, cress, Berteroa, Cheiranthus, genus Capsella, Cakile, genus Thlaspi, Pritzelago, genus Brassica, Papaverales, Sinapis, genus Heliophila, genus Arabis, genus Physaria, genus Iberis, Raphanus, cress plant, Erysimum, Arabis, genus Turritis, genus Isatis, Camelina, genus Schizopetalon, watercress, Isatis, genus Thysanocarpus, genus Cakile, Alliaria, genus Diplotaxis, genus Dentaria, genus Stanleya, nasturtium, order Rhoeadales, genus Vesicaria, Vesicaria, genus Sinapis, Crambe, genus Cheiranthus, Iberis, genus Camelina, genus Aethionema, genus Sisymbrium, Armoracia, Capsella, cruciferous, genus Lobularia, genus Hesperis, genus Armoracia, genus Stephanomeria, Lepidium, false flax, Rhoeadales, genus Cardamine, Subularia, Arabidopsis, Malcolmia, Aethionema, genus Lepidium, genus Biscutella, genus Lesquerella, genus Arabidopsis, Dentaria, Biscutella, Cardamine, Rorippa, Diplotaxis, Barbarea, Thysanocarpus, cruciferous plant, Lobularia, Descurainia, genus Lunaria, genus Matthiola, dilleniid dicot family, genus Subularia, Matthiola, genus Descurainia, genus Malcolmia, crucifer, Physaria, genus Raphanus, Brassicaceae, Eruca, genus Eruca, genus Pritzelago, genus Cochlearia, genus Alyssum, Thlaspi, order Papaverales, Turritis, genus Draba



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