AGAVE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agave family mean? 

• AGAVE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun AGAVE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae

  Familiarity information: AGAVE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGAVE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agavaceae; agave family; family Agavaceae; sisal family

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

liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "agave family"):

agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

Cordyline; genus Cordyline (Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants)

Dracaenaceae; Dracenaceae; subfamily Dracaenaceae; subfamily Dracenaceae (one of two subfamilies to which some classification systems assign some members of the Agavaceae)

genus Dracaena (Old World tropical plants with branches ending in tufts of sword-shaped leaves; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)

genus Nolina; Nolina (perennial plants resembling yucca; found in southern United States and Mexico)

genus Polianthes; Polianthes (genus of perennial tuberous herbs having lily-like flowers; Mexico; sometimes placed in family Amaryllidaceae)

genus Sansevieria (Old World tropical herbaceous perennial of the agave family; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)

genus Yucca (tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

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

Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)