WATERLEAF FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waterleaf family mean? 

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

1. perennial woodland herbs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATERLEAF FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial woodland herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Hydrophyllaceae; Hydrophyllaceae; waterleaf family

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

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

Meronyms (members of "waterleaf family"):

genus Hydrophyllum; Hydrophyllum (waterleaf)

Emmanthe; genus Emmanthe (one species: yellow bells)

Eriodictyon; genus Eriodictyon (small genus of evergreen shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico)

genus Nemophila (genus of ornamental chiefly California herbs: baby blue-eyes)

genus Phacelia (American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes)

genus Pholistoma; Pholistoma (straggling herbs of southwestern United States)

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

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)