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SARRACENIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sarraceniaceae mean?
• SARRACENIACEAE (noun)
The noun SARRACENIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. insectivorous plants
Familiarity information: SARRACENIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insectivorous plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae
Hypernyms ("Sarraceniaceae" 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 "Sarraceniaceae"):
genus Sarracenia; Sarracenia (pitcher plants)
Darlingtonia; genus Darlingtonia (one species: California pitcher plant)
genus Heliamphora; Heliamphora (genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America)
Holonyms ("Sarraceniaceae" is a member of...):
order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)
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