FAMILY HYPOXIDACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Hypoxidaceae mean? 

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

1. in some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY HYPOXIDACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

In some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Hypoxidaceae; Hypoxidaceae

Hypernyms ("family Hypoxidaceae" 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 "family Hypoxidaceae"):

genus Hypoxis; Hypoxis (small plants that resemble amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass)

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

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