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PAPILIONACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Papilionaceae mean?
• PAPILIONACEAE (noun)
The noun PAPILIONACEAE has 1 sense:
1. leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Familiarity information: PAPILIONACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Papilionacea; Papilionaceae
Hypernyms ("Papilionaceae" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Holonyms ("Papilionaceae" is a member of...):
Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)
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