The Cucurbitaceae, also called cucurbits or the gourd family, are a plant family consisting of about 965 species in around 95 genera. Those most important to humans are the following:
Ángel Maria Berroa Selmo is a Dominican professional baseball coach and former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Mets. Berroa was selected as the 2003 American League Rookie of the Year.
The Marcgraviaceae are a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales. The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes, and lianas, with alternate, pinnately nerved leaves. The flowers are arranged in racemes. The flowers are accompanied by modified, fleshy, saccate bracts which produce nectar. The flowers are pentamerous. The fruits are capsules.
Gerónimo Emiliano Berroa is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder. He played for nine Major League Baseball (MLB) teams from 1989 to 2000, and also played one season in the KBO League in 2002.
Pfaffia is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae.
Ignacio Berroa is a jazz drummer.
Porfirio Antonio Berroa Carbucia was a Dominican Republic broadcaster known for his Spanish language baseball announcing. A native of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, Berroa was affectionately known as "Billy" and "El Internacional".
Gustave Beauverd (1867–1942) was a Swiss botanist, specializing in Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, and Spermatophytes.
La Leyenda de La Hora (The Legend of the Hour) is a 1981 album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner released on the Columbia label. It features performances by Tyner with alto saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, tenor saxophonist Chico Freeman, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, flautist Hubert Laws, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Avery Sharpe, drummer Ignacio Berroa and percussionist Daniel Ponce, plus a string section conducted by William Fischer.
Laennecia or Laënnecia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The plants are native to Mesoamerica, South America, and the southwestern United States. Common name is "horseweed."
Noticastrum is a genus of South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Onoseris is a genus of Mesoamerican and South American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Rei Berroa is a Dominican-American poet, university professor, literary and cultural critic, and translator living in the United States. He has published more than 25 books of poetry, anthologies, translations, and literary criticism.
Stylocline gnaphaloides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names mountain neststraw and everlasting neststraw.
Catalina Berroa Ojea was a Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer. Cuba's first female conductor. María Catalina Prudencia Román de Berroa Ojea “Catalina Berroa” Trinidad, Las Villas, Cuba. Una mujer que se constituyó en un patrimonio histórico de la enseñanza musical, reconocida también como la primera mujer que dirigió una orquesta en la isla de Cuba. She was the first female conductor in Cuba and mastered seven instruments.
José Manuel ("Lico") Jiménez Berroa was a Cuban pianist and composer.
Chevreulia is a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, described as a genus in 1817.
Monique Keraudren-Aymonin was a French botanist.
Podotheca gnaphalioides is a small annual herb in the family Asteraceae, endemic to Western Australia. It grows from 2 cm to 60 cm tall and is an often sticky herb, which is erect or decumbent, and whose yellow or orange-yellow flowers are seen from August to November. It grows on a variety of soils, but tends to prefer sandy soils.
Chryselium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. It contains a single species, Chryselium gnaphalioides.
