FAMILY NEPENTHACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Nepenthaceae mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the genus Nepenthes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY NEPENTHACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the genus Nepenthes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Nepenthaceae; Nepenthaceae

Hypernyms ("family Nepenthaceae" 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 Nepenthaceae"):

genus Nepenthes; Nepenthes (pitcher plants)

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

order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)