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WOOD-SORREL FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wood-sorrel family mean?
• WOOD-SORREL FAMILY (noun)
The noun WOOD-SORREL FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
Familiarity information: WOOD-SORREL FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Oxalidaceae; Oxalidaceae; wood-sorrel family
Hypernyms ("wood-sorrel family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "wood-sorrel family"):
genus Oxalis (type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels)
Averrhoa; genus Averrhoa (trees native to East Indies having pinnate leaves: carambolas)
Holonyms ("wood-sorrel family" is a member of...):
Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)
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