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TRAPACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Trapaceae mean?
• TRAPACEAE (noun)
The noun TRAPACEAE has 1 sense:
1. family comprising solely the genus Trapa; in some classifications treated as a subfamily or tribe of the family Onagraceae
Familiarity information: TRAPACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family comprising solely the genus Trapa; in some classifications treated as a subfamily or tribe of the family Onagraceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Trapaceae; Trapaceae
Hypernyms ("Trapaceae" 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 "Trapaceae"):
genus Trapa; Trapa (small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut)
Holonyms ("Trapaceae" is a member of...):
Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)
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