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AMARYLLIDACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Amaryllidaceae mean?
• AMARYLLIDACEAE (noun)
The noun AMARYLLIDACEAE has 1 sense:
1. snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
Familiarity information: AMARYLLIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Snowdrop; narcissus; daffodil; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Amaryllidaceae; amaryllis family; family Amaryllidaceae
Hypernyms ("Amaryllidaceae" 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 "Amaryllidaceae"):
amaryllis (bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers)
genus Amaryllis (type genus of the Amaryllidaceae; bulbous flowering plants of southern Africa)
Bomarea; genus Bomarea (large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae)
genus Haemanthus; Haemanthus (genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies)
genus Hippeastrum (bulbous flowering plants of tropical America)
genus Narcissus (Old World perennial bulbous herbs)
genus Strekelia; Strekelia (a monocotyledonous genus of the amaryllis family)
Holonyms ("Amaryllidaceae" is a member of...):
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)
Context examples
The hydrobromide salt form of galantamine, a tertiary alkaloid obtained synthetically or naturally from the bulbs and flowers of Narcissus and several other genera of the Amaryllidaceae family with anticholinesterase and neurocognitive-enhancing activities.
(Galantamine Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)
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