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FAMILY TRILLIACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae
Synonyms:
family Trilliaceae; Trilliaceae; trillium family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Trilliaceae" is a kind of...):
liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
Meronyms (members of "family Trilliaceae"):
genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)
Holonyms ("family Trilliaceae" is a member of...):
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)