BARBERRY FAMILY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does barberry family mean? 

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

1. shrubs or herbs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARBERRY FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

Shrubs or herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae

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

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "barberry family"):

Berberis; genus Berberis (large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds)

Caulophyllum; genus Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)

Epimedium; genus Epimedium (herbaceous perennials of Mediterranean to India and eastern Asia)

genus Mahonia; Mahonia (evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia)

genus Podophyllum; Podophyllum (perennial rhizomatous herbs)

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

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)