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PEONY FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America

Synonyms:

family Paeoniaceae; Paeoniaceae; peony family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "peony family"):

genus Paeonia; Paeonia (peonies: herbaceous or shrubby plants having showy flowers)

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

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

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