Compositae (Noun)
Meaning
Plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Compositae include flowers that grow as single units from numerous smaller units of florets arranged around a center in daisy flowers.
- Goldenrod belongs to Compositae as each cluster on a goldenrod is not an individual flower, but is instead an arrangement of several to hundreds of small florets.
- Botanists further grouped thistles in Compositae based on similar appearance, of containing clustered flower arrangements which constitute several units rather than just single unit flower formations.
- As we glance around an urban green lawn there might exist so many unwanted tiny forms in clusters all referred as florets categorized within large collection and of common usage class the "Compositae", thus more general meaning name plants here said marigolds have.
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