FAMILY PAPILIONACEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Papilionacea mean? 

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

1. leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY PAPILIONACEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Papilionacea; Papilionaceae

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

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

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)