SAXIFRAGE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saxifrage family mean? 

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

1. a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAXIFRAGE FAMILY (noun)

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Meaning:

A large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "saxifrage family"):

genus Heuchera; Heuchera (genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers)

genus Tolmiea; Tolmiea (one species: pickaback plant)

genus Tiarella; Tiarella (small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers)

genus Tellima; Tellima (genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America)

genus Suksdorfia (small genus of rhizomatous herbs of northwestern America and South America)

genus Parnassia (genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions)

genus Mitella; Mitella (genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals)

genus Lithophragma; Lithophragma (small genus of perennial herbs of the western North America)

genus Leptarrhena; Leptarrhena (one species: leatherleaf saxifrage)

Francoa; genus Francoa (perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink flowers; Chile)

Darmera; genus Darmera; genus Peltiphyllum; Peltiphyllum (one species)

Chrysosplenium; genus Chrysosplenium (genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers)

Boykinia; genus Boykinia (genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs with flowers in panicles; North America; Japan)

genus Bergenia (genus of perennial spring-blooming rhizomatous herbs with thick evergreen leaves; eastern Asia)

genus Astilbe (chiefly Asiatic perennials: spirea)

genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga (type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage)

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

order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)