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FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Cannabidaceae mean?
• FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE has 1 sense:
1. two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae
Familiarity information: FAMILY CANNABIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two genera of erect or twining herbs that are pollinated by the wind, including the genera Cannabis and Humulus; term not used in all classifications; in some the genus Cannabis is placed in the family Moraceae and the genus Humulus in the family Urticaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cannabidaceae; family Cannabidaceae; hemp family
Hypernyms ("family Cannabidaceae" 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 "family Cannabidaceae"):
genus Cannabis (hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae)
genus Humulus; Humulus (hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae)
Holonyms ("family Cannabidaceae" is a member of...):
order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)
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