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FAMILY FUMARIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Fumariaceae mean?
• FAMILY FUMARIACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY FUMARIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
Familiarity information: FAMILY FUMARIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family
Hypernyms ("family Fumariaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family Fumariaceae"):
Fumaria; genus Fumaria (annual herbs whose flowers have only one petal spurred at the base)
Adlumia; genus Adlumia (one species: climbing fumitory)
Dicentra; genus Dicentra (North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers)
Holonyms ("family Fumariaceae" is a member of...):
order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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