WATER-LILY FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does water-lily family mean?
• WATER-LILY FAMILY (noun)
The noun WATER-LILY FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. dicot aquatic plants
Familiarity information: WATER-LILY FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WATER-LILY FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Dicot aquatic plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family
Hypernyms ("water-lily family" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "water-lily family"):
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 ("water-lily family" 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)
