FAMILY OROBANCHACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales

Synonyms:

broomrape family; family Orobanchaceae; Orobanchaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

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

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

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