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TYPHACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Typhaceae mean?
• TYPHACEAE (noun)
The noun TYPHACEAE has 1 sense:
1. perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves
Familiarity information: TYPHACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae
Hypernyms ("Typhaceae" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Typhaceae"):
genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)
Holonyms ("Typhaceae" is a member of...):
order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)
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