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FAMILY ACANTHACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales

Synonyms:

Acanthaceae; acanthus family; family Acanthaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "family Acanthaceae"):

genus Acanthus (bear's breeches)

genus Graptophyllum; Graptophyllum (caricature plant)

genus Thunbergia; Thunbergia (a genus of herbs or vines of the family Acanthaceae)

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

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

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