/ English Dictionary |
FAMILY COMMELINACEAE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts
Synonyms:
Commelinaceae; family Commelinaceae; spiderwort family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Commelinaceae" 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 Commelinaceae"):
genus Commelina (type genus of the Commelinaceae; large genus of herbs of branching or creeping habit: day flower; widow's tears)
dayflower; spiderwort (any plant of the family Commelinaceae)
genus Tradescantia; Tradescantia (spiderworts)
Holonyms ("family Commelinaceae" is a member of...):
Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)