WINTERGREEN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wintergreen family mean? 

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

1. evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINTERGREEN FAMILY (noun)

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Meaning:

Evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae; wintergreen family

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "wintergreen family"):

genus Pyrola (short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf)

genus Orthilia; Orthilia (a shrubby perennial rhizomatous evergreen herb; grows in damp coniferous woodlands in northern temperate regions)

Chimaphila; genus Chimaphila (small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east Asia)

genus Moneses; Moneses (one species: one-flowered wintergreen; sometimes included in genus Pyrola)

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

Ericales; order Ericales (Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae)