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FAMILY LOBELIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Lobeliaceae mean?
• FAMILY LOBELIACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY LOBELIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae
Familiarity information: FAMILY LOBELIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Lobeliaceae; lobelia family; Lobeliaceae
Hypernyms ("family Lobeliaceae" 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)
Holonyms ("family Lobeliaceae" is a member of...):
Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)
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