GESNERIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gesneriaceae mean? 

• GESNERIACEAE (noun)
  The noun GESNERIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales

  Familiarity information: GESNERIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GESNERIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae

Hypernyms ("Gesneriaceae" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Gesneriaceae"):

gesneriad (any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia)

genus Gesneria (large genus of tropical American herbs having showy tubular flowers)

genus Achimenes (genus of tropical perennial American herbs)

genus Aeschynanthus (large genus of East Indian ornamental woody epiphytic plants)

Alsobia; genus Alsobia (tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia)

genus Columnea (genus of tropical American subshrubs and lianas)

genus Episcia (genus of tropical American herbs having soft hairy foliage)

genus Gloxinia (small genus of tropical American herbs with leafy stems and axillary flowers)

gloxinia (any of several plants of the genera Gloxinia or Sinningia (greenhouse gloxinias) having showy bell-shaped flowers)

genus Kohleria (genus of tropical American shrubs)

genus Saintpaulia; Saintpaulia (east African herb with nodding flowers; widely cultivated)

genus Sinningia; Sinningia (genus of perennial tuberous herbs and shrubs of Central and South America)

genus Streptocarpus (large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs: Cape primrose)

Holonyms ("Gesneriaceae" is a member of...):

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)