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    SEA-LAVENDER FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("sea-lavender 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 "sea-lavender family"):

    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 ("sea-lavender family" is a member of...):

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

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