BUCKWHEAT FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does buckwheat family mean?
• BUCKWHEAT FAMILY (noun)
The noun BUCKWHEAT FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats
Familiarity information: BUCKWHEAT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BUCKWHEAT FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
A family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae
Hypernyms ("buckwheat 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 "buckwheat family"):
genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)
Fagopyrum; genus Fagopyrum (buckwheat; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum)
genus Eriogonum (North American herbs of the buckwheat family)
genus Rheum; Rheum (rhubarb)
genus Rumex; Rumex (docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions)
Holonyms ("buckwheat family" is a member of...):
order Polygonales; Polygonales (coextensive with the family Polygonaceae,)
