Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A natural order of monopetalous dicotyledonous plants, the bellworts, mostly herbaceous, with bland milky juice, alternate leaves, a regular bell-shaped or rotate corolla, distinct stamens, and numerous seeds in a capsule usually opening by valves or lateral slits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of flowering plants, which in some classifications includes the
Lobeliaciae .
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Asterales — very many plants related to theharebells .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae
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"It could be in the Campanulaceae, or the Gentianaceae, the Polemoniaceae, the Boraginaceae-that's most likely, I think, forget-me-nots-but it could even be a variant of this one, the Anemone patens."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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DC (Campanulaceae), commonly called Balloon Flower Root or Jie Geng, have been found to increase intracellular glutathione (GSH) content and significantly reduce oxidative injury to liver cells, minimise cell death and lipid peroxidation.
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I am far from expecting that no cases of apparent impossibility will be found; but certainly I expect that ultimately they will disappear; for instance, Campanulaceae seems
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Family matters: Cardinal flower belongs to the plant family Campanulaceae, a group of species commonly referred to as the bellflower family.
unknown title 2009
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In plants, convergence has been suggested to explain the striking similarity in life form between the giant lobelioids (Campanulaceae, the bellflower family) of Africa and the Hawaiian Islands.
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Campanulaceae (bellflower family) consists of about 70 genera and 2000 herb, shrub, and
Museum Blogs 2009
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