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FAMILY TACCACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Taccaceae mean?
• FAMILY TACCACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY TACCACEAE has 1 sense:
1. small family of tropical herbs
Familiarity information: FAMILY TACCACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small family of tropical herbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Taccaceae; Taccaceae
Hypernyms ("family Taccaceae" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "family Taccaceae"):
genus Tacca; Tacca (genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers)
Holonyms ("family Taccaceae" is a member of...):
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)
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