family rosaceae

1. 1.

   a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens

   SynonymsRosaceaerose family

   Broaderrosid dicot family

   Part ofRosales

Questions about family rosaceae

What does family rosaceae mean?

family rosaceae means "a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens".

What is another word for family rosaceae?

Close synonyms include Rosaceae, rose family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family rosaceae a common word?

family rosaceae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.