FAMILY BEGONIACEAE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America

Synonyms:

begonia family; Begoniaceae; family Begoniaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "family Begoniaceae"):

genus Begonia (large genus of tropical succulent plants widely cultivated)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)