LOASACEAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Loasaceae mean? 

• LOASACEAE (noun)
  The noun LOASACEAE has 1 sense:

1. family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia

  Familiarity information: LOASACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOASACEAE (noun)

Meaning:

Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae

Hypernyms ("Loasaceae" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Loasaceae"):

genus Loasa (genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs)

genus Mentzelia; Mentzelia (genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs)

Holonyms ("Loasaceae" is a member of...):

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)