BIGNONIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bignoniaceae mean? 

• BIGNONIACEAE (noun)
  The noun BIGNONIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales

  Familiarity information: BIGNONIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGNONIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae

Hypernyms ("Bignoniaceae" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Bignoniaceae"):

bignoniad (any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae)

Bignonia; genus Bignonia (one species: cross vine)

genus Catalpa (a dicotyledonous genus of plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae; has large flowers (white or mottled) and long terete pods)

Chilopsis; genus Chilopsis (one species: desert willow)

Crescentia; genus Crescentia (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bignoniaceae"):

Campsis radicans; trumpet creeper; trumpet vine (a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers)

Holonyms ("Bignoniaceae" is a member of...):

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

Derivation:

bignoniaceous (of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae)