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SPIDERWORT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiderwort family mean? 

SPIDERWORT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun SPIDERWORT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderwortsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SPIDERWORT FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Commelinaceae; family Commelinaceae; spiderwort family

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

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "spiderwort family"):

genus Commelina (type genus of the Commelinaceae; large genus of herbs of branching or creeping habit: day flower; widow's tears)

dayflower; spiderwort (any plant of the family Commelinaceae)

genus Tradescantia; Tradescantia (spiderworts)

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

Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)


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