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ONAGRACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Onagraceae mean? 

ONAGRACEAE (noun)
  The noun ONAGRACEAE has 1 sense:

1. a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtalesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ONAGRACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

evening-primrose family; family Onagraceae; Onagraceae

Hypernyms ("Onagraceae" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Onagraceae"):

Circaea; genus Circaea (enchanter's nightshade)

Epilobium; genus Epilobium (large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areas)

genus Fuchsia (large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers)

genus Oenothera; Oenothera (chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers)

evening primrose (any of several plants of the family Onagraceae)

Holonyms ("Onagraceae" 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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