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    BORAGE FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruitplay

    Synonyms:

    borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    plant family (a family of plants)

    Meronyms (members of "borage family"):

    Borago; genus Borago (perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region)

    Amsinckia; genus Amsinckia (rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks)

    genus Anchusa (rough and hairy Old World herbs)

    Cordia; genus Cordia (tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)

    Cynoglossum; genus Cynoglossum (a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae)

    Echium; genus Echium (a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)

    genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula (stickweed; beggar's lice)

    genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum (annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia)

    genus Mertensia; Mertensia (a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels)

    genus Myosotis; Myosotis (forget-me-nots; scorpion grass)

    genus Onosmodium; Onosmodium (a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae)

    genus Symphytum; Symphytum (comfrey)

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

    order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

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