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FLAX FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A widely distributed family of plants
Synonyms:
family Linaceae; flax family; Linaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flax family" 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 "flax family"):
genus Linum; Linum (a herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves)
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