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    FAMILY PAPAVERACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruitsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Papaveraceae"):

    genus Stylophorum; Stylophorum (wood poppies)

    genus Stylomecon; Stylomecon (one species: wind poppy)

    genus Sanguinaria; Sanguinaria (one species: bloodroot)

    genus Romneya; Romneya (one species: matilija poppy)

    genus Platystemon; Platystemon (one species: creamcups)

    genus Meconopsis; Meconopsis (herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic)

    genus Macleaya; Macleaya (a perennial herb of eastern Asia: plume poppy)

    genus Hunnemania; Hunnemannia (one species: golden cup)

    genus Glaucium; Glaucium (herbs of Europe and North Africa and Asia: horned poppy)

    Eschscholtzia; genus Eschscholtzia (showy herbs of western North America)

    Dendromecon; genus Dendromecon (one species: bush poppy)

    Corydalis; genus Corydalis (annual or perennial herbs of Himalayan China and South Africa)

    Chelidonium; genus Chelidonium (one species: greater celandine)

    genus Bocconia (tropical American trees or shrubs closely related to genus Macleaya)

    genus Argemone (prickly poppies)

    genus Papaver; Papaver (type genus of the Papaveraceae; chiefly bristly hairy herbs with usually showy flowers)

    poppy (annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers)

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

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

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