TRILLIUM FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trillium family mean? 

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

1. small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRILLIUM FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Trilliaceae; Trilliaceae; trillium family

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

liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Meronyms (members of "trillium family"):

genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)

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

Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)