Definition of Compasitae
||Com*pos"i*tæ (?), n. pl.
[NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See
Composite.] (Bot.) A large family of
dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense
heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube.
The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Translingual
- (botany) a botanical name at the rank of family, with Asteraceae as the allowed alternate. A large family, the composites, over 1,000 genera: circumscription of the family is stable, but internal taxonomy is not.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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