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WATERLEAF FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial woodland herbs
Synonyms:
family Hydrophyllaceae; Hydrophyllaceae; waterleaf family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("waterleaf family" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "waterleaf family"):
genus Hydrophyllum; Hydrophyllum (waterleaf)
Emmanthe; genus Emmanthe (one species: yellow bells)
Eriodictyon; genus Eriodictyon (small genus of evergreen shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico)
genus Nemophila (genus of ornamental chiefly California herbs: baby blue-eyes)
genus Phacelia (American herbs with usually pinnatifid leaves and blue or purple or white flowers in scorpioid cymes)
genus Pholistoma; Pholistoma (straggling herbs of southwestern United States)
Holonyms ("waterleaf family" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
