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FAMILY PLANTAGINACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
Synonyms:
family Plantaginaceae; Plantaginaceae; plantain family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Plantaginaceae" 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 Plantaginaceae"):
genus Plantago; Plantago (type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs)
Holonyms ("family Plantaginaceae" is a member of...):
order Plantaginales; Plantaginales (coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae)