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Noun: family Cruciferae
  1. A large family of plants with four-petalled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives
    - Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family

Type of: dilleniid dicot family

Part of: order Papaverales, order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, Rhoeadales

Nearest

family Cotingidae
family Cottidae
family court
family Cracidae
family Cracticidae
family Crangonidae
family Crassulaceae
family Cricetidae
family Crocodylidae
family Crotalidae
family Cruciferae
family Cryptobranchidae
family Cryptocercidae
family Cryptogrammataceae
family Ctenizidae
family Cuculidae
family Cucurbitaceae
family Culicidae
family Cunoniaceae
family Cupressaceae
family Curculionidae