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    AGAVE FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Agavaceae; agave family; family Agavaceae; sisal family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

    Meronyms (members of "agave family"):

    agave; American aloe; century plant (tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber)

    genus Agave (type genus of the Agavaceae; in some classifications considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

    Cordyline; genus Cordyline (Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants)

    Dracaenaceae; Dracenaceae; subfamily Dracaenaceae; subfamily Dracenaceae (one of two subfamilies to which some classification systems assign some members of the Agavaceae)

    genus Dracaena (Old World tropical plants with branches ending in tufts of sword-shaped leaves; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)

    genus Nolina; Nolina (perennial plants resembling yucca; found in southern United States and Mexico)

    genus Polianthes; Polianthes (genus of perennial tuberous herbs having lily-like flowers; Mexico; sometimes placed in family Amaryllidaceae)

    genus Sansevieria (Old World tropical herbaceous perennial of the agave family; in some classifications considered a genus of Liliaceae)

    genus Yucca (tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae)

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

    Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

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