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FAMILY DROSERACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Droseraceae mean?

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

1. a family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs

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

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY DROSERACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Droseraceae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Droseraceae; family Droseraceae; sundew family

Hypernyms ("family Droseraceae" 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 "family Droseraceae"):

Drosera; genus Drosera (the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants)

Dionaea; genus Dionaea (a genus of the family Droseraceae)

Aldrovanda; genus Aldrovanda (one species: waterwheel plant)

Drosophyllum; genus Drosophyllum (one species)

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

order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)

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