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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 Leguminosaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PAPILIONACEAE (noun)


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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