LOASA FAMILY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia

Synonyms:

family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "loasa family"):

genus Loasa (genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs)

genus Mentzelia; Mentzelia (genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs)

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

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