BEGONIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Begoniaceae mean? 

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

1. monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEGONIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

begonia family; Begoniaceae; family Begoniaceae

Hypernyms ("Begoniaceae" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Begoniaceae"):

genus Begonia (large genus of tropical succulent plants widely cultivated)

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

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