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PLANT FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plant family mean?
• PLANT FAMILY (noun)
The noun PLANT FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of plants
Familiarity information: PLANT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("plant family" is a kind of...):
family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant family"):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
bellflower family; Campanulaceae; family Campanulaceae (family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae)
Dioscoreaceae; family Dioscoreaceae; yam family (yams)
Erythroxylaceae; family Erythroxylaceae (a family of plants of order Geraniales; have drupaceous fruit)
Crassulaceae; family Crassulaceae; stonecrop family (succulent shrubs and herbs)
family Grossulariaceae; gooseberry family; Grossulariaceae (in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry)
borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae (a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit)
bladderwort family; family Lentibulariaceae; Lentibulariaceae (carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea)
family Martyniaceae; Martyniaceae (in most classifications not considered a separate family but included in the Pedaliaceae)
family Pedaliaceae; Pedaliaceae; sesame family (the family of plants of order Polemoniales)
Holonyms ("plant family" is a member of...):
kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)
Context examples
A cyclolignan alkaloid found in the mayapple plant family (Podophyllum peltatum), and a small molecule inhibitor of the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R) with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Picropodophyllin, NCI Thesaurus)
Acetate salt of elliptinium, a derivative of the alkaloid ellipticine isolated from species of the plant family Apocynaceae, including Bleekeria vitensis, a plant with anti-cancer properties.
(Elliptinium Acetate, NCI Thesaurus)
A derivative of the alkaloid ellipticine isolated from species of the plant family Apocynaceae, including Bleekeria vitensis, a plant with anti-cancer properties.
(Elliptinium, NCI Thesaurus)
A plant family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets which includes the mints, thyme, sage, and rosemary.
(Lamiaceae, NCI Thesaurus)
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