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ACANTHUS FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does acanthus family mean?
• ACANTHUS FAMILY (noun)
The noun ACANTHUS FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Familiarity information: ACANTHUS FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Acanthaceae; acanthus family; family Acanthaceae
Hypernyms ("acanthus family" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "acanthus family"):
genus Acanthus (bear's breeches)
genus Graptophyllum; Graptophyllum (caricature plant)
genus Thunbergia; Thunbergia (a genus of herbs or vines of the family Acanthaceae)
Holonyms ("acanthus family" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
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