LEADWORT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leadwort family mean? 

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

1. perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEADWORT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family

Hypernyms ("leadwort 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 "leadwort family"):

genus Plumbago (shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort)

Armeria; genus Armeria (shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials)

genus Limonium; Limonium (sea lavender)

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

order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)