MORNING-GLORY FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morning-glory family mean? 

• MORNING-GLORY FAMILY (noun)
  The noun MORNING-GLORY FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit

  Familiarity information: MORNING-GLORY FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORNING-GLORY FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Convolvulaceae; family Convolvulaceae; morning-glory family

Hypernyms ("morning-glory family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "morning-glory family"):

genus Convolvulus (genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed)

bindweed (any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit)

Argyreia; genus Argyreia (woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia)

Calystegia; genus Calystegia (climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed)

Cuscuta; genus Cuscuta (genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder)

genus Dichondra (genus of chiefly tropical prostrate perennial herbs with creeping stems that root at the nodes)

genus Ipomoea; Ipomoea (morning glory)

Holonyms ("morning-glory family" is a member of...):

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)