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FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Cannabidaceae mean? 

FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE has 1 sense:

1. two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceaeplay

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


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FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE (noun)


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Meaning:

Two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cannabidaceae; family Cannabidaceae; hemp family

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "family Cannabidaceae"):

genus Cannabis (hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae)

genus Humulus; Humulus (hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae)

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

order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)


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