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SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY

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SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY (noun)
  The noun SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas

  Familiarity information: SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1sea-lavender family [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family

Hypernyms ("sea-lavender 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 "sea-lavender family"):

genus Plumbago (shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort)

Armeria; genus Armeria (shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials)

genus Limonium; Limonium (sea lavender)

Holonyms ("sea-lavender family" is a member of...):

order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)


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