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PAPAVERACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
Synonyms:
family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Papaveraceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Papaveraceae" is a member of...):
order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
