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plant family - a family of plants | ||
family primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" | ||
kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants | ||
gymnosperm family a family of gymnosperms | ||
bellflower family, campanulaceae, family campanulaceae family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae | ||
dioscoreaceae, family dioscoreaceae, yam family yams | ||
erythroxylaceae, family erythroxylaceae a family of plants of order Geraniales; have drupaceous fruit | ||
crassulaceae, family crassulaceae, stonecrop family succulent shrubs and herbs | ||
family grossulariaceae, gooseberry family, grossulariaceae in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry | ||
borage family, boraginaceae, family boraginaceae a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit | ||
bladderwort family, family lentibulariaceae, lentibulariaceae carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea | ||
family martyniaceae, martyniaceae in most classifications not considered a separate family but included in the Pedaliaceae |