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NYMPHAEACEAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does Nymphaeaceae mean?

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

1. dicot aquatic plants

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

Dictionary entry details

• NYMPHAEACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Dicot aquatic plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Nymphaeaceae"):

water lily (an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae)

genus Nymphaea; Nymphaea (the type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae; any of a variety of water lilies)

genus Nuphar; Nuphar (spatterdocks)

Nelumbonaceae; subfamily Nelumbonaceae (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo)

Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)

Holonyms ("Nymphaeaceae" 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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