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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 shrubs
Familiarity information: SUNDEW FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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