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LOASA FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does loasa family mean?
• LOASA FAMILY (noun)
The noun LOASA FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia
Familiarity information: LOASA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae
Hypernyms ("loasa family" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "loasa family"):
genus Loasa (genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs)
genus Mentzelia; Mentzelia (genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs)
Holonyms ("loasa family" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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