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CATTAIL FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves

Synonyms:

cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cattail family" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "cattail family"):

genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)

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

order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)

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