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IRIDACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Iridaceae mean? 

IRIDACEAE (noun)
  The noun IRIDACEAE has 1 sense:

1. large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


IRIDACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family

Hypernyms ("Iridaceae" 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 "Iridaceae"):

iridaceous plant (any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae)

Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda; genus Crocus (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)

genus Freesia (cormous perennial herbs; native to South Africa)

genus Gladiolus (gladiolas)

genus Ixia; Ixia (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)

genus Sisyrinchium; Sisyrinchium (chiefly North American grasslike herbs)

genus Sparaxis; Sparaxis (deciduous perennial herbs of South Africa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Iridaceae"):

genus Iris (large genus of perennials that develop from bulbs or rhizomes)

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

Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

Derivation:

iridaceous (of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae)


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