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MENISPERMACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Menispermaceae mean?

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

1. herbaceous or woody climbers

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

Dictionary entry details

• MENISPERMACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Herbaceous or woody climbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family

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

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Menispermaceae"):

genus Menispermum; Menispermum (climbing herbs)

moonseed (plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds)

Cocculus; genus Cocculus (climbing plants or shrubs)

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

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

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