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PLUMBAGINACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Perennial herbs and shrubs and lianas; cosmopolitan especially in saltwater areas

Synonyms:

family Plumbaginaceae; leadwort family; Plumbaginaceae; sea-lavender family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Plumbaginaceae" 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 "Plumbaginaceae"):

genus Plumbago (shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort)

Armeria; genus Armeria (shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials)

genus Limonium; Limonium (sea lavender)

Holonyms ("Plumbaginaceae" is a member of...):

order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)

Derivation:

plumbaginaceous (of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae)

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