AMARANTH FAMILY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs

Synonyms:

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("amaranth family" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "amaranth family"):

Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus (large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs)

Alternanthera; genus Alternanthera (genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera)

Celosia; genus Celosia (annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa)

Froelichia; genus Froelichia (genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed)

genus Gomphrena; Gomphrena (genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia)

genus Iresine; Iresine (genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs)

genus Telanthera; Telanthera (used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera)

Holonyms ("amaranth family" is a member of...):

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)