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FAMILY ALISMATACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Alismataceae mean?
• FAMILY ALISMATACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY ALISMATACEAE has 1 sense:
1. perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants
Familiarity information: FAMILY ALISMATACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family
Hypernyms ("family Alismataceae" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "family Alismataceae"):
Alisma; genus Alisma (small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants)
genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria (genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers)
Holonyms ("family Alismataceae" is a member of...):
Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)
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