EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evening-primrose family mean? 

• EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales

  Familiarity information: EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae

Hypernyms ("evening-primrose family" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "evening-primrose family"):

Circaea; genus Circaea (enchanter's nightshade)

Epilobium; genus Epilobium (large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas)

genus Fuchsia (large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers)

genus Oenothera; Oenothera (chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers)

evening primrose (any of several plants of the family Onagraceae)

Holonyms ("evening-primrose family" is a member of...):

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)