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SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sea-lavender family mean?
• SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY (noun)
The noun SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas
Familiarity information: SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family
Hypernyms ("sea-lavender family" 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 "sea-lavender family"):
genus Plumbago (shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort)
Armeria; genus Armeria (shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials)
genus Limonium; Limonium (sea lavender)
Holonyms ("sea-lavender family" is a member of...):
order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)
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