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Boraginaceae

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Noun1.Boraginaceae - a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit
borage family, family Boraginaceae
plant family - a family of plants
order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales
Borago, genus Borago - perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region
Amsinckia, genus Amsinckia - rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks
genus Anchusa - rough and hairy Old World herbs
Cordia, genus Cordia - tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
Cynoglossum, genus Cynoglossum - a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae
Echium, genus Echium - a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
genus Hackelia, genus Lappula, Hackelia, Lappula - stickweed; beggar's lice
genus Lithospermum, Lithospermum - annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia
genus Mertensia, Mertensia - a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels
genus Myosotis, Myosotis - forget-me-nots; scorpion grass
genus Onosmodium, Onosmodium - a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae
genus Symphytum, Symphytum - comfrey
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The family of forget-me-nots, boraginaceae, contains some surprising plants, many of which copy the wild one in their flower colour if not their habit of growth.
Seeding a symbol of hope by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Perthyn i deulu tafod yr ych, y Boraginaceae y mae o, ac mae o'n blanhigyn lluosflwydd, unionsyth, nobl, canghennog, blew bras gyda choesynnau adenog sy'n blodeuo yn ystod misoedd Mai, Mehefin, Gorffennaf ac Awst.
Llond cwpwrdd o ffisig o un blodyn; BYD NATUR Mwy o ryfeddodau byd ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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