LINACEAE

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Meaning:

A widely distributed family of plants

Synonyms:

family Linaceae; flax family; Linaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Linaceae" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Linaceae"):

genus Linum; Linum (a herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves)

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