VERVAIN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vervain family mean? 

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

1. family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERVAIN FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family

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

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "vervain family"):

genus Verbena (type genus of the Verbenaceae; genus of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs)

Avicennia; genus Avicennia (small genus of tropical shrubs or trees)

Avicenniaceae; family Avicenniaceae (used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia)

Aegiceras; genus Aegiceras (a genus of herbs of the family Verbenaceae)

genus Tectona; Tectona (small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teak)

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

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)