FAMILY OROBANCHACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Orobanchaceae mean? 

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

1. brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY OROBANCHACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

broomrape family; family Orobanchaceae; Orobanchaceae

Hypernyms ("family Orobanchaceae" 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)

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

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)