PLANTAGINACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Plantaginaceae mean? 

• PLANTAGINACEAE (noun)
  The noun PLANTAGINACEAE has 1 sense:

1. cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds

  Familiarity information: PLANTAGINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANTAGINACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Plantaginaceae; Plantaginaceae; plantain family

Hypernyms ("Plantaginaceae" 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 "Plantaginaceae"):

genus Plantago; Plantago (type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs)

Holonyms ("Plantaginaceae" is a member of...):

order Plantaginales; Plantaginales (coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae)