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AMARANTH FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
Synonyms:
amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("amaranth family" is a kind of...):
caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)
Meronyms (members of "amaranth family"):
Amaranthus; genus Amaranthus (large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs)
Alternanthera; genus Alternanthera (genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera)
Celosia; genus Celosia (annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa)
Froelichia; genus Froelichia (genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed)
genus Gomphrena; Gomphrena (genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia)
genus Iresine; Iresine (genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs)
genus Telanthera; Telanthera (used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera)
Holonyms ("amaranth family" is a member of...):
Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)
