FIGWORT FAMILY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does figwort family mean? 

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

1. a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIGWORT FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae

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

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "figwort family"):

genus Verbascum; Verbascum (genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves)

genus Penstemon; Penstemon (large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; mostly western North America)

genus Linaria; Linaria (genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers: spurred snapdragon)

Agalinis; genus Agalinis (semiparasitic herb with purple or white or pink flowers; grows in the United States and West Indies)

genus Gerardia (genus of annual or perennial herbs with showy pink or purple or yellow flowers; plants often assigned to genera Aureolaria or Agalinis)

genus Digitalis (genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers)

Culver's physic; Culver's root; Culvers physic; Culvers root; Veronicastrum virginicum; whorlywort (a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America)

Collinsia; genus Collinsia (genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States)

Chelone; genus Chelone (herbaceous perennials: shellflower)

Castilleia; Castilleja; genus Castilleia; genus Castilleja (genus of western North and South American perennials often partially parasitic on roots of grasses)

genus Calceolaria (large genus of tropical American herbs and shrubs with showy cymose flowers)

Aureolaria; genus Aureolaria (small genus of North American herbs often root-parasitic and bearing golden-yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia)

Besseya; genus Besseya (genus of North American spring wildflowers)

Antirrhinum; genus Antirrhinum (a genus of herbs of the family Scrophulariaceae with brightly colored irregular flowers)

genus Scrophularia; Scrophularia (type genus of Scrophulariaceae; named for the plants' supposed ability to cure scrofula: figworts)

genus Veronica (widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell)

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

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