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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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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 "Trilliaceae"):

genus Trillium (deciduous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae)

Holonyms ("Trilliaceae" is a member of...):

Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

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