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FAMILY ACANTHACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Synonyms:
Acanthaceae; acanthus family; family Acanthaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Acanthaceae" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "family Acanthaceae"):
genus Acanthus (bear's breeches)
genus Graptophyllum; Graptophyllum (caricature plant)
genus Thunbergia; Thunbergia (a genus of herbs or vines of the family Acanthaceae)
Holonyms ("family Acanthaceae" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
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