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BIGNONIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Synonyms:
Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bignoniaceae" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Bignoniaceae"):
bignoniad (any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae)
Bignonia; genus Bignonia (one species: cross vine)
genus Catalpa (a dicotyledonous genus of plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae; has large flowers (white or mottled) and long terete pods)
Chilopsis; genus Chilopsis (one species: desert willow)
Crescentia; genus Crescentia (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bignoniaceae"):
Campsis radicans; trumpet creeper; trumpet vine (a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers)
Holonyms ("Bignoniaceae" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
Derivation:
bignoniaceous (of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae)
