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WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY

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• WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY (noun)
The noun WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants

Familiarity information: WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

• WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family

Hypernyms ("water-plantain family" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "water-plantain family"):

Alisma; genus Alisma (small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants)

genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria (genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers)

Holonyms ("water-plantain family" is a member of...):

Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)

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