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TRILLIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Trilliaceae mean?
• TRILLIACEAE (noun)
The noun TRILLIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
Familiarity information: TRILLIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Trilliaceae; Trilliaceae; trillium family
Hypernyms ("Trilliaceae" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "Trilliaceae"):
genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)
Holonyms ("Trilliaceae" is a member of...):
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)
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