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BEGONIA FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does begonia family mean?
• BEGONIA FAMILY (noun)
The noun BEGONIA FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America
Familiarity information: BEGONIA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
begonia family; Begoniaceae; family Begoniaceae
Hypernyms ("begonia family" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "begonia family"):
genus Begonia (large genus of tropical succulent plants widely cultivated)
Holonyms ("begonia family" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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