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FUMITORY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
Synonyms:
family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fumitory family" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "fumitory family"):
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 ("fumitory family" is a member of...):
order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
