English > amaranth family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs. |
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| Synonyms | Amaranthaceae, family Amaranthaceae |
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| Member of | Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales | corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae |
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| Members | Alternanthera, genus Alternanthera | genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia |
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| Amaranthus, genus Amaranthus | large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs |
| Celosia, genus Celosia | annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa |
| Froelichia, genus Froelichia | genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers |
| Gomphrena, genus Gomphrena | genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads |
| Iresine, genus Iresine | genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs |
| Telanthera, genus Telanthera | Used in former classifications systems |
| Broader | caryophylloid dicot family | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
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| Spanish | amarantáceas |
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| Catalan | amarantàcia, amarantàcies, Amaranthaceae |
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