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FLAX FAMILY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does flax family mean?

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

1. a widely distributed family of plants

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

Dictionary entry details

• FLAX FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A widely distributed family of plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Linaceae; flax family; Linaceae

Hypernyms ("flax 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 "flax family"):

genus Linum; Linum (a herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves)

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