FAMILY ISOETACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Isoetaceae mean? 

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

1. quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ISOETACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quillworts; coextensive with the genus Isoetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Isoetaceae; Isoetaceae; quillwort family

Hypernyms ("family Isoetaceae" is a kind of...):

fern family (families of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "family Isoetaceae"):

genus Isoetes; Isoetes (type and genus of the Isoetaceae and sole extant genus of the order Isoetales)

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

Isoetales; order Isoetales (aquatic or marsh-growing fern allies; known to have existed since the Cenozoic; sometimes included in Lycopodiales)