MOONSEED FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moonseed family mean? 

• MOONSEED FAMILY (noun)
  The noun MOONSEED FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. herbaceous or woody climbers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOONSEED FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbaceous or woody climbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family

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

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "moonseed family"):

genus Menispermum; Menispermum (climbing herbs)

moonseed (plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds)

Cocculus; genus Cocculus (climbing plants or shrubs)

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

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)