Definition of "cruciferae" []

• A natural family of plants with four-petaled flowers; the mustard family. (noun)

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• "Without expecting game, some useful plant might be met with, and the young naturalist was delighted with discovering a sort of wild spinach, belonging to the order of chenopodiaceae, and numerous specimens of cruciferae, belonging to the cabbage tribe, which it would certainly be possible to cultivate by transplanting."
• "PASTEL is a plant of the family of the cruciferae, the diftinguifliing charafter of which is taken from the form of the feed-pod, which is flat like that of the afh, edged with a thin membrane, and contains two long feeds/"