FAMILY SARRACENIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Sarraceniaceae mean? 

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

1. insectivorous plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SARRACENIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insectivorous plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Sarraceniaceae; pitcher-plant family; Sarraceniaceae

Hypernyms ("family Sarraceniaceae" 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 Sarraceniaceae"):

genus Sarracenia; Sarracenia (pitcher plants)

Darlingtonia; genus Darlingtonia (one species: California pitcher plant)

genus Heliamphora; Heliamphora (genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America)

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

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