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BORAGE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit
Synonyms:
borage family; Boraginaceae; family Boraginaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("borage family" is a kind of...):
plant family (a family of plants)
Meronyms (members of "borage family"):
Borago; genus Borago (perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region)
Amsinckia; genus Amsinckia (rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks)
genus Anchusa (rough and hairy Old World herbs)
Cordia; genus Cordia (tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)
Cynoglossum; genus Cynoglossum (a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae)
Echium; genus Echium (a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae)
genus Hackelia; genus Lappula; Hackelia; Lappula (stickweed; beggar's lice)
genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum (annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia)
genus Mertensia; Mertensia (a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels)
genus Myosotis; Myosotis (forget-me-nots; scorpion grass)
genus Onosmodium; Onosmodium (a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae)
genus Symphytum; Symphytum (comfrey)
Holonyms ("borage family" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
