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    FAMILY FUMARIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel cornplay

    Synonyms:

    family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Fumariaceae"):

    Fumaria; genus Fumaria (annual herbs whose flowers have only one petal spurred at the base)

    Adlumia; genus Adlumia (one species: climbing fumitory)

    Dicentra; genus Dicentra (North American and Asian herbs with divided leaves and irregular flowers)

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

    order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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