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CARROT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carrot family mean? 

CARROT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CARROT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dillplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CARROT FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Apiaceae; carrot family; family Apiaceae; family Umbelliferae; Umbelliferae

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "carrot family"):

Daucus; genus Daucus (carrot)

genus Smyrnium; Smyrnium (Alexanders)

genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)

genus Sison; Sison (genus including stone parsley)

genus Seseli; Seseli (a rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots)

genus Sanicula; Sanicula (chiefly American herbs: sanicle)

genus Pimpinella; Pimpinella (anise)

genus Petroselinum; Petroselinum (parsley)

genus Oenanthe; Oenanthe (poisonous herbs: water dropworts)

genus Myrrhis; Myrrhis (European perennial herbs having pinnate leaves and umbels of white flowers)

genus Levisticum; Levisticum (genus of aromatic European herbs with yellow flowers)

genus Heracleum; Heracleum (widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers)

Foeniculum; genus Foeniculum (very small genus of aromatic European herbs with pinnately compound leaves and yellow flowers)

Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)

Cuminum; genus Cuminum (cumin)

Conopodium; genus Conopodium (a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Umbelliferae)

Conium; genus Conium (small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock)

Cicuta; genus Cicuta (small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock)

Carum; genus Carum (caraway)

genus Astrantia (a genus of Eurasian herbs of the family Umbelliferae with aromatic roots and palmate leaves and showy flowers)

Apium; genus Apium (celery)

Anthriscus; genus Anthriscus (chervil: of Europe, North Africa and Asia)

Anethum; genus Anethum (dill)

Aethusa; genus Aethusa (fool's parsley)

umbellifer; umbelliferous plant (any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrot family"):

genus Angelica (biennial or perennial herbs of the northern hemisphere; have a taproot)

genus Pastinaca; Pastinaca (a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips)

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

order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))


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