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LYTHRACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Lythraceae mean?

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

1. herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers

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

Dictionary entry details

• LYTHRACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Lythraceae; loosestrife family; Lythraceae

Hypernyms ("Lythraceae" 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 "Lythraceae"):

genus Lythrum; Lythrum (loosestrife)

genus Lagerstroemia; Lagerstroemia (shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers)

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

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)

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