FAMILY ALISMATACEAE

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Meaning:

Perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants

Synonyms:

Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "family Alismataceae"):

Alisma; genus Alisma (small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants)

genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria (genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers)

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

Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)