FAMILY TYPHACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Typhaceae mean? 

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

1. perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TYPHACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae

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

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "family Typhaceae"):

genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)

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

order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)