NASTURTIUM FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nasturtium family mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the genus Tropaeolum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NASTURTIUM FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the genus Tropaeolum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Tropaeolaceae; nasturtium family; Tropaeolaceae

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "nasturtium family"):

genus Tropaeolum; Tropaeolum (a tropical American genus of dicotyledonous climbing or diffuse pungent herbs constituting the family Tropaeolaceae)

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

Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)