WATER-LILY FAMILY

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• 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)