PRIMROSE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primrose family mean? 

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

1. a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMROSE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae

Hypernyms ("primrose 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 "primrose family"):

genus Primula (very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers)

Anagallis; genus Anagallis (chiefly Old World herbs)

Centunculus; genus Centunculus (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae)

genus Cyclamen (genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves)

genus Glaux; Glaux (sea milkwort)

genus Hottonia; Hottonia (aquatic herbs)

genus Lysimachia; Lysimachia (loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive)

genus Samolus; Samolus (genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels)

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

order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)