AMARYLLIDACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amaryllidaceae mean? 

• AMARYLLIDACEAE (noun)
  The noun AMARYLLIDACEAE has 1 sense:

1. snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae

  Familiarity information: AMARYLLIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMARYLLIDACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amaryllidaceae; amaryllis family; family Amaryllidaceae

Hypernyms ("Amaryllidaceae" 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 "Amaryllidaceae"):

amaryllis (bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers)

genus Amaryllis (type genus of the Amaryllidaceae; bulbous flowering plants of southern Africa)

Bomarea; genus Bomarea (large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae)

genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus (genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies)

genus Hippeastrum (bulbous flowering plants of tropical America)

genus Narcissus (Old World perennial bulbous herbs)

genus Strekelia; Strekelia (a monocotyledonous genus of the amaryllis family)

Holonyms ("Amaryllidaceae" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

The hydrobromide salt form of galantamine, a tertiary alkaloid obtained synthetically or naturally from the bulbs and flowers of Narcissus and several other genera of the Amaryllidaceae family with anticholinesterase and neurocognitive-enhancing activities.

(Galantamine Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)