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NYMPHAEACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dicot aquatic plants
Synonyms:
family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Nymphaeaceae" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Nymphaeaceae"):
water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)
genus Nymphaea; Nymphaea (the type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae; any of a variety of water lilies)
genus Nuphar; Nuphar (spatterdocks)
Nelumbonaceae; subfamily Nelumbonaceae (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo)
Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)
Holonyms ("Nymphaeaceae" is a member of...):
order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)
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