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WATER-PLANTAIN FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants
Synonyms:
Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("water-plantain family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "water-plantain family"):
Alisma; genus Alisma (small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants)
genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria (genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers)
Holonyms ("water-plantain family" is a member of...):
Alismales; Naiadales; order Alismales; order Naiadales (an order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants)