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LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY

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Meaning:

Herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers

Synonyms:

family Lythraceae; loosestrife family; Lythraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("loosestrife family" 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 "loosestrife family"):

genus Lythrum; Lythrum (loosestrife)

genus Lagerstroemia; Lagerstroemia (shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers)

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

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)

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