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    SUNDEW FAMILY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubsplay

    Synonyms:

    Droseraceae; family Droseraceae; sundew family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("sundew 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 "sundew family"):

    Drosera; genus Drosera (the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants)

    Dionaea; genus Dionaea (a genus of the family Droseraceae)

    Aldrovanda; genus Aldrovanda (one species: waterwheel plant)

    Drosophyllum; genus Drosophyllum (one species)

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

    order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)

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