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PHLOX FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phlox family mean? 

PHLOX FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PHLOX FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PHLOX FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Polemoniaceae; phlox family; Polemoniaceae

Hypernyms ("phlox family" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "phlox family"):

genus Polemonium (type genus of the Polemoniaceae)

genus Phlox (herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico)

genus Linanthus; Linanthus (a genus of herbs of the family Polemoniaceae; found in western United States)

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

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)


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