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SUNDEW FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sundew family mean? 

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

1. a family of carnivorous herbs and shrubsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SUNDEW FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Droseraceae; family Droseraceae; sundew family

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "sundew family"):

Drosera; genus Drosera (the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants)

Dionaea; genus Dionaea (a genus of the family Droseraceae)

Aldrovanda; genus Aldrovanda (one species: waterwheel plant)

Drosophyllum; genus Drosophyllum (one species)

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

order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)


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