phlox family
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1. a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | asterid dicot family, |
| definition | : | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus polemonium, |
| definition | : | type genus of the Polemoniaceae (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus phlox, |
| definition | : | herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus linanthus, linanthus, |
| definition | : | a genus of herbs of the family Polemoniaceae; found in western United States (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | order polemoniales, polemoniales, |
| definition | : | Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
| derivation | : | polemoniaceous, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | polemoniaceous, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae (adj.pert) |
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