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FAMILY ZINGIBERACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Zingiberaceae mean? 

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

1. a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musalesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY ZINGIBERACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae

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

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "family Zingiberaceae"):

genus Zingiber; Zingiber (tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger)

Curcuma; genus Curcuma (tropical Asiatic perennial herbs)

Alpinia; genus Alpinia; genus Languas; genus Zerumbet (perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes)

Aframomum; genus Aframomum (an African genus of plants of the family Zingiberaceae)

Elettaria; genus Elettaria (cardamom)

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

Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)


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