MILKWEED FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milkweed family mean? 

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

1. widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILKWEED FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asclepiadaceae; family Asclepiadaceae; milkweed family

Hypernyms ("milkweed 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 "milkweed family"):

asclepiad (any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae)

Asclepias; genus Asclepias (genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed)

Araujia; genus Araujia (small genus of South American evergreen vines)

genus Cynancum (genus of perennial tropical African lianas)

genus Hoya (large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia)

genus Periploca; Periploca (genus of woody vines of warm regions of the Old World)

genus Sarcostemma; Sarcostemma (succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia)

genus Stapelia (genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India)

genus Stephanotis (genus of Old World tropical woody vines)

genus Vincetoxicum; Vincetoxicum (genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers; supposedly having powers as an antidote)

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

Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)