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FAMILY LINACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Linaceae mean?
• FAMILY LINACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY LINACEAE has 1 sense:
1. a widely distributed family of plants
Familiarity information: FAMILY LINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A widely distributed family of plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Linaceae; flax family; Linaceae
Hypernyms ("family Linaceae" 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 Linaceae"):
genus Linum; Linum (a herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves)
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