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WATER-MILFOIL FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water-milfoil family mean?
• WATER-MILFOIL FAMILY (noun)
The noun WATER-MILFOIL FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales
Familiarity information: WATER-MILFOIL FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Haloragaceae; family Haloragidaceae; Haloragaceae; Haloragidaceae; water-milfoil family
Hypernyms ("water-milfoil family" 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 "water-milfoil family"):
genus Myriophyllum; Myriophyllum (chiefly monoecious and usually aquatic herbs (as the milfoils))
Holonyms ("water-milfoil family" 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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