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    FAMILY UMBELLIFERAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dillplay

    Synonyms:

    Apiaceae; carrot family; family Apiaceae; family Umbelliferae; Umbelliferae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "family Umbelliferae"):

    genus Smyrnium; Smyrnium (Alexanders)

    genus Sium; Sium (perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips)

    genus Sison; Sison (genus including stone parsley)

    genus Seseli; Seseli (a rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots)

    genus Sanicula; Sanicula (chiefly American herbs: sanicle)

    genus Pimpinella; Pimpinella (anise)

    genus Petroselinum; Petroselinum (parsley)

    genus Oenanthe; Oenanthe (poisonous herbs: water dropworts)

    genus Myrrhis; Myrrhis (European perennial herbs having pinnate leaves and umbels of white flowers)

    genus Levisticum; Levisticum (genus of aromatic European herbs with yellow flowers)

    genus Heracleum; Heracleum (widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers)

    Foeniculum; genus Foeniculum (very small genus of aromatic European herbs with pinnately compound leaves and yellow flowers)

    Eryngium; genus Eryngium (large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution)

    Daucus; genus Daucus (carrot)

    Cuminum; genus Cuminum (cumin)

    Conopodium; genus Conopodium (a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Umbelliferae)

    Conium; genus Conium (small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock)

    Cicuta; genus Cicuta (small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock)

    Carum; genus Carum (caraway)

    genus Astrantia (a genus of Eurasian herbs of the family Umbelliferae with aromatic roots and palmate leaves and showy flowers)

    Apium; genus Apium (celery)

    Anthriscus; genus Anthriscus (chervil: of Europe, North Africa and Asia)

    Anethum; genus Anethum (dill)

    Aethusa; genus Aethusa (fool's parsley)

    umbellifer; umbelliferous plant (any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family Umbelliferae"):

    genus Angelica (biennial or perennial herbs of the northern hemisphere; have a taproot)

    genus Pastinaca; Pastinaca (a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips)

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

    order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))

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