VALERIAN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valerian family mean? 

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

1. genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALERIAN FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Valerianaceae; valerian family; Valerianaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "valerian family"):

genus Valeriana; Valeriana (genus of widely distributed perennial herbs and some shrubs)

genus Valerianella; Valerianella (genus of Old World annual herbs widely naturalized)

Centranthus; genus Centranthus (genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs)

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

order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)