MORNING-GLORY FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does morning-glory family mean?
• MORNING-GLORY FAMILY (noun)
The noun MORNING-GLORY FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit
Familiarity information: MORNING-GLORY FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MORNING-GLORY FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Convolvulaceae; family Convolvulaceae; morning-glory family
Hypernyms ("morning-glory 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 "morning-glory family"):
genus Convolvulus (genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed)
bindweed (any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit)
Argyreia; genus Argyreia (woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia)
Calystegia; genus Calystegia (climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed)
Cuscuta; genus Cuscuta (genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder)
genus Dichondra (genus of chiefly tropical prostrate perennial herbs with creeping stems that root at the nodes)
genus Ipomoea; Ipomoea (morning glory)
Holonyms ("morning-glory family" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
