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AGAVE FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does agave family mean?
• AGAVE FAMILY (noun)
The noun AGAVE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae
Familiarity information: AGAVE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Agavaceae; agave family; family Agavaceae; sisal family
Hypernyms ("agave family" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "agave family"):
agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)
genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)
Cordyline; genus Cordyline (Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants)
Dracaenaceae; Dracenaceae; subfamily Dracaenaceae; subfamily Dracenaceae (one of two subfamilies to which some classification systems assign some members of the Agavaceae)
genus Dracaena (Old World tropical plants with branches ending in tufts of sword-shaped leaves; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)
genus Nolina; Nolina (perennial plants resembling yucca; found in southern United States and Mexico)
genus Polianthes; Polianthes (genus of perennial tuberous herbs having lily-like flowers; Mexico; sometimes placed in family Amaryllidaceae)
genus Sansevieria (Old World tropical herbaceous perennial of the agave family; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)
genus Yucca (tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)
Holonyms ("agave family" is a member of...):
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)
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