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cruciferae
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Cruciferae
Cruciferae \Cruciferae\ n. a natural family of plants with four-petaled flowers; the mustard family.
Syn: family Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family.
Usage examples of "cruciferae".
Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting.
But as this occurred in the four species examined by us, belonging to such distinct families as the Gramineae, Cruciferae, and Chenopodeae, it is probably of common occurrence.