FUMITORY FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fumitory family mean? 

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

1. erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUMITORY FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "fumitory family"):

Fumaria; genus Fumaria (annual herbs whose flowers have only one petal spurred at the base)

Adlumia; genus Adlumia (one species: climbing fumitory)

Dicentra; genus Dicentra (North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers)

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

order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)