amaranth family
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am′aranth fam`ily
n.
a family, Amaranthaceae, of herbaceous plants with alternate or opposite leaves and small, chaffy flowers in brightly colored dense clusters: includes the cockscomb and amaranth.
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| Noun | 1. |  amaranth family - cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubscaryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order Caryophyllales, order-Chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae Amaranthus, genus Amaranthus - large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs Alternanthera, genus Alternanthera - genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera 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: cottonweed genus Gomphrena, Gomphrena - genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia genus Iresine, Iresine - genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs genus Telanthera, Telanthera - used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera |