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EELGRASS FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eelgrass family mean?
• EELGRASS FAMILY (noun)
The noun EELGRASS FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae
Familiarity information: EELGRASS FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
eelgrass family; family Zosteraceae; Zosteraceae
Hypernyms ("eelgrass family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Holonyms ("eelgrass family" is a member of...):
Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)
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