LOBELIA FAMILY

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Meaning:

Not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae

Synonyms:

family Lobeliaceae; lobelia family; Lobeliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lobelia family" 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 ("lobelia family" is a member of...):

Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)

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