PIPEWORT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pipewort family mean? 

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

1. chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIPEWORT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eriocaulaceae; family Eriocaulaceae; pipewort family

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

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "pipewort family"):

Eriocaulon; genus Eriocaulon (type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs)

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

Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)