BORAGE FAMILY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does borage family mean? 

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

1. a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORAGE FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae

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

plant family (a family of plants)

Meronyms (members of "borage family"):

genus Onosmodium; Onosmodium (a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae)

genus Myosotis; Myosotis (forget-me-nots; scorpion grass)

genus Mertensia; Mertensia (a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels)

genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum (annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia)

genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula (stickweed; beggar's lice)

Echium; genus Echium (a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)

Cynoglossum; genus Cynoglossum (a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae)

Cordia; genus Cordia (tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)

genus Anchusa (rough and hairy Old World herbs)

Amsinckia; genus Amsinckia (rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks)

Borago; genus Borago (perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region)

genus Symphytum; Symphytum (comfrey)

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

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