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CATTAIL FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cattail family mean?
• CATTAIL FAMILY (noun)
The noun CATTAIL FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves
Familiarity information: CATTAIL FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae
Hypernyms ("cattail family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "cattail family"):
genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)
Holonyms ("cattail family" is a member of...):
order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)
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