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PAPAVERACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Papaveraceae mean? 

PAPAVERACEAE (noun)
  The noun PAPAVERACEAE has 1 sense:

1. herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruitsplay

  Familiarity information: PAPAVERACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PAPAVERACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family

Hypernyms ("Papaveraceae" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Papaveraceae"):

Eschscholtzia; genus Eschscholtzia (showy herbs of western North America)

genus Stylophorum; Stylophorum (wood poppies)

genus Stylomecon; Stylomecon (one species: wind poppy)

genus Sanguinaria; Sanguinaria (one species: bloodroot)

genus Romneya; Romneya (one species: matilija poppy)

genus Platystemon; Platystemon (one species: creamcups)

genus Meconopsis; Meconopsis (herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic)

genus Macleaya; Macleaya (a perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy)

genus Hunnemania; Hunnemannia (one species: golden cup)

genus Glaucium; Glaucium (herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia: horned poppy)

Dendromecon; genus Dendromecon (one species: bush poppy)

Corydalis; genus Corydalis (annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa)

Chelidonium; genus Chelidonium (one species: greater celandine)

genus Bocconia (tropical American trees or shrubs closely related to genus Macleaya)

genus Argemone (prickly poppies)

genus Papaver; Papaver (type genus of the Papaveraceae; chiefly bristly hairy herbs with usually showy flowers)

poppy (annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers)

Holonyms ("Papaveraceae" is a member of...):

order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)


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