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SAXIFRAGE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae
Synonyms:
family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("saxifrage family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "saxifrage family"):
genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea (one species: pickaback plant)
genus Tiarella; Tiarella (small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers)
genus Tellima; Tellima (genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America)
genus Suksdorfia (small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America)
genus Parnassia (genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions)
genus Mitella; Mitella (genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals)
genus Lithophragma; Lithophragma (small genus of perennial herbs of the western North America)
genus Leptarrhena; Leptarrhena (one species: leatherleaf saxifrage)
genus Heuchera; Heuchera (genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers)
Francoa; genus Francoa (perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers; Chile)
Darmera; genus Darmera; genus Peltiphyllum; Peltiphyllum (one species)
Chrysosplenium; genus Chrysosplenium (genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers)
Boykinia; genus Boykinia (genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs with flowers in panicles; North America; Japan)
genus Bergenia (genus of perennial spring-blooming rhizomatous herbs with thick evergreen leaves; eastern Asia)
genus Astilbe (chiefly Asiatic perennials: spirea)
genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga (type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage)
Holonyms ("saxifrage family" is a member of...):
order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)
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