family Malvaceae

family Malvaceae
noun
herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra
Syn: ↑Malvaceae, ↑mallow family
Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
Member Holonyms: ↑Malvales, ↑order Malvales
Member Meronyms:

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  • Malvaceae — Least Mallow, Malva parviflora Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae …   Wikipedia

  • Malvaceae — prop. n. A natural family of herbs and shrubs and some trees, including the mallows, cotton, and okra; the {mallow family}. Syn: family {Malvaceae}, mallow family. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Malvaceae — noun herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra • Syn: ↑family Malvaceae, ↑mallow family • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Malvales, ↑order Malvales …   Useful english dictionary

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  • mallow family — Malvaceae Malvaceae prop. n. A natural family of herbs and shrubs and some trees, including the mallows, cotton, and okra; the {mallow family}. Syn: family {Malvaceae}, mallow family. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Malvaceae — ▪ plant family  the hibiscus, or mallow, family, in the order Malvales, containing 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the… …   Universalium

  • mallow family — noun herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra • Syn: ↑Malvaceae, ↑family Malvaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family • Member Holonyms: ↑Malvales, ↑order Malvales …   Useful english dictionary

  • dilleniid dicot family — noun family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Hyponyms: ↑Capparidaceae, ↑family Capparidaceae, ↑caper family, ↑Cruciferae, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a… …   Universalium

  • mallow family — n. (Bot.) The natural family {Malvaceae}, a dilleniid dicot family consisting of herbs and shrubs and some trees, and including the mallows, cotton, and okra. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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