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COMMELINACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Commelinaceae mean?
• COMMELINACEAE (noun)
The noun COMMELINACEAE has 1 sense:
1. large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts
Familiarity information: COMMELINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Commelinaceae; family Commelinaceae; spiderwort family
Hypernyms ("Commelinaceae" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Commelinaceae"):
genus Commelina (type genus of the Commelinaceae; large genus of herbs of branching or creeping habit: day flower; widow's tears)
dayflower; spiderwort (any plant of the family Commelinaceae)
genus Tradescantia; Tradescantia (spiderworts)
Holonyms ("Commelinaceae" is a member of...):
Commelinales; order Commelinales; order Xyridales; Xyridales (an order of monocotyledonous herbs)
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