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    CATTAIL FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leavesplay

    Synonyms:

    cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "cattail family"):

    genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)

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

    order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)

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