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    CROWFOOT FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of Ranunculaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

    Meronyms (members of "crowfoot family"):

    genus Trollius; Trollius (perennial herbs of north temperate regions: globeflowers)

    genus Trautvetteria; Trautvetteria (small genus of perennial herbs: false bugbane)

    genus Thalictrum; Thalictrum (widely distributed genus of perennial herbs: meadow rue)

    genus Pulsatilla; Pulsatilla (includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers)

    genus Nigella (erect annual Eurasian herbs)

    genus Laccopetalum; Laccopetalum (one species: giant buttercup)

    genus Isopyrum; Isopyrum (tufted perennial herbs of northern hemisphere)

    genus Hydrastis; Hydrastis (small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan)

    genus Hepatica (small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions; allied to genus Anemone)

    genus Helleborus; Helleborus (a genus of Helleborus)

    Eranthis; genus Eranthis (winter aconite)

    genus Delphinium (large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous)

    Consolida; genus Consolida (plants having flowers resembling the larkspur's but differing from larkspur's in the arrangement of petals; sometimes included in genus Delphinium)

    Coptis; genus Coptis (small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers)

    genus Clematis (large genus of deciduous or evergreen woody vines or erect herbs)

    Cimicifuga; genus Cimicifuga (small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane)

    Caltha; genus Caltha (a genus of Caltha)

    genus Aquilegia (columbine)

    Anemonella; genus Anemonella (one species: rue anemone)

    genus Anemone (perennial herbs with tuberous roots and beautiful flowers; of north and south temperate regions)

    Adonis; genus Adonis (annual or perennial herbs)

    Actaea; genus Actaea (baneberry)

    Aconitum; genus Aconitum (genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal)

    genus Ranunculus; Ranunculus (annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot)

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

    order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

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