BUCKWHEAT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buckwheat family mean? 

• BUCKWHEAT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BUCKWHEAT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKWHEAT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buckwheat family; family Polygonaceae; Polygonaceae

Hypernyms ("buckwheat 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 "buckwheat family"):

genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)

Fagopyrum; genus Fagopyrum (buckwheat; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum)

genus Eriogonum (North American herbs of the buckwheat family)

genus Rheum; Rheum (rhubarb)

genus Rumex; Rumex (docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions)

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

order Polygonales; Polygonales (coextensive with the family Polygonaceae,)