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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 flowers
Familiarity information: PHLOX FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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