Flax Family (Noun)
Meaning
A widely distributed family of plants.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The flax family consists of herbaceous plants with small, usually regular flowers that have five sepals and five petals.
- Flax family plants have seed pods that contain numerous seeds in two rows along each chamber of the capsule.
- Most plants of the flax family have five-part flowers and small leaves, typically simple in arrangement and usually narrow.
- A distinguishing feature of plants within the flax family is that the pollen of many of the plants produces characteristic tricolporate pollen grains.
- Linum is the genus in the flax family, it consists of the herbaceous perennial and annual flax species that can grow almost everywhere in the world.