primrose family
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1. a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | dicot family, magnoliopsid family, |
| definition | : | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus primula, |
| definition | : | very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus cyclamen, |
| definition | : | genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus lysimachia, lysimachia, |
| definition | : | loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus samolus, samolus, |
| definition | : | genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | order primulales, primulales, |
| definition | : | Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae (noun.plant) |
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