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FAMILY PIPERACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
Synonyms:
family Piperaceae; pepper family; Piperaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Piperaceae" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "family Piperaceae"):
genus Piper; Piper (type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs)
genus Peperomia (large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs)
Holonyms ("family Piperaceae" is a member of...):
order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)
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