VIOLET FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does violet family mean? 

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

1. a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIOLET FAMILY (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family

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

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

Meronyms (members of "violet family"):

genus Viola; Viola (large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions)

genus Hybanthus; Hybanthus (a genus of herbs and small shrubs with white or purple flowers; grows in tropical or subtropical regions)

genus Hymenanthera; Hymenanthera (a genus of slender evergreen shrubs; grow in Australia and New Zealand)

genus Melicytus; Melicytus (a genus of deciduous shrubs or trees; fruit is a berry; grow in New Zealand and Fiji and Solomon Islands)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)