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GOODENIA FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Goodenia family mean?
• GOODENIA FAMILY (noun)
The noun GOODENIA FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of sappy plants that grow in Australasia and southeast China
Familiarity information: GOODENIA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of sappy plants that grow in Australasia and southeast China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Goodeniaceae; Goodenia family; Goodeniaceae
Hypernyms ("Goodenia family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Goodenia family"):
Goodenia (a genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia)
Holonyms ("Goodenia family" is a member of...):
Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)
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