POKEWEED FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pokeweed family mean? 

• POKEWEED FAMILY (noun)
  The noun POKEWEED FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POKEWEED FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Phytolaccaceae; Phytolaccaceae; pokeweed family

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

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "pokeweed family"):

genus Phytolacca; Phytolacca (type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed)

Agdestis; genus Agdestis (a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates)

Ercilla; genus Ercilla (a genus of evergreen climbers)

genus Rivina; Rivina (small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America)

genus Trichostigma; Trichostigma (a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America)

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

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)