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    FAMILY POLEMONIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    family Polemoniaceae; phlox family; Polemoniaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Polemoniaceae"):

    genus Polemonium (type genus of the Polemoniaceae)

    genus Phlox (herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico)

    genus Linanthus; Linanthus (a genus of herbs of the family Polemoniaceae; found in western United States)

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

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

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