1. a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens; [syn: Rosaceae, family Rosaceae, rose family]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
family Rosaceae
n 1: a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales;
have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with
numerous stamens [syn: Rosaceae, family Rosaceae, rose
family]