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BROOMRAPE FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does broomrape family mean?
• BROOMRAPE FAMILY (noun)
The noun BROOMRAPE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Familiarity information: BROOMRAPE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
broomrape family; family Orobanchaceae; Orobanchaceae
Hypernyms ("broomrape 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)
Holonyms ("broomrape 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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