amaranthaceae

1. Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs (synset 111843026)
   is a type of: caryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
   member holonym:

   • 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
   belongs to: caryophyllales, chenopodiales, order caryophyllales, order-chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
   same as: amaranth family, family amaranthaceae

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