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MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does meadow-beauty family mean?
• MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY (noun)
The noun MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
Familiarity information: MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Melastomaceae; family Melastomataceae; meadow-beauty family; Melastomaceae; Melastomataceae
Hypernyms ("meadow-beauty family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "meadow-beauty family"):
genus Melastoma; Melastoma (type genus of Melastomataceae; Asiatic shrubs with leathery leaves and large purple flowers followed by edible fleshy black berries)
genus Medinilla; Medinilla (tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers)
genus Rhexia; Rhexia (deer grass)
Holonyms ("meadow-beauty family" is a member of...):
Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)
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