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BIRTHWORT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birthwort family mean? 

BIRTHWORT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BIRTHWORT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. family of birthworts (including wild ginger)play

  Familiarity information: BIRTHWORT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIRTHWORT FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of birthworts (including wild ginger)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aristolochiaceae; birthwort family; family Aristolochiaceae

Hypernyms ("birthwort family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "birthwort family"):

Aristolochia; genus Aristolochia (birthworts; Dutchman's-pipe)

Asarum; genus Asarum (wild ginger)

Holonyms ("birthwort family" is a member of...):

Aristolochiales; order Aristolochiales (order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary)


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