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CARROT FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill
Synonyms:
Apiaceae; carrot family; family Apiaceae; family Umbelliferae; Umbelliferae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carrot family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "carrot family"):
genus Smyrnium; Smyrnium (Alexanders)
genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)
genus Sison; Sison (genus including stone parsley)
genus Seseli; Seseli (a rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots)
genus Sanicula; Sanicula (chiefly American herbs: sanicle)
genus Pimpinella; Pimpinella (anise)
genus Petroselinum; Petroselinum (parsley)
genus Oenanthe; Oenanthe (poisonous herbs: water dropworts)
genus Myrrhis; Myrrhis (European perennial herbs having pinnate leaves and umbels of white flowers)
genus Levisticum; Levisticum (genus of aromatic European herbs with yellow flowers)
genus Heracleum; Heracleum (widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers)
Foeniculum; genus Foeniculum (very small genus of aromatic European herbs with pinnately compound leaves and yellow flowers)
Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)
Daucus; genus Daucus (carrot)
Cuminum; genus Cuminum (cumin)
Conopodium; genus Conopodium (a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Umbelliferae)
Conium; genus Conium (small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock)
Cicuta; genus Cicuta (small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock)
Carum; genus Carum (caraway)
genus Astrantia (a genus of Eurasian herbs of the family Umbelliferae with aromatic roots and palmate leaves and showy flowers)
Apium; genus Apium (celery)
Anthriscus; genus Anthriscus (chervil: of Europe, North Africa and Asia)
Anethum; genus Anethum (dill)
Aethusa; genus Aethusa (fool's parsley)
umbellifer; umbelliferous plant (any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrot family"):
genus Angelica (biennial or perennial herbs of the northern hemisphere; have a taproot)
genus Pastinaca; Pastinaca (a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips)
Holonyms ("carrot family" is a member of...):
order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))
