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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 herbsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY TACCACEAE (noun)


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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