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FAMILY DIPSACACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads

Synonyms:

Dipsacaceae; family Dipsacaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "family Dipsacaceae"):

Dipsacus; genus Dipsacus (type genus of the Dipsacaceae: teasel)

genus Scabiosa (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean)

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

order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)

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