Meaning | large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts. |
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Synonyms | Commelinaceae, spiderwort family |
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Member of | Xyridales, order Xyridales, Commelinales, order Commelinales | An order of monocotyledonous herbs |
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Members | Tradescantia, genus Tradescantia | spiderworts |
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genus Commelina | type genus of the Commelinaceae |
spiderwort, dayflower | Any plant of the family Commelinaceae |
Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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Spanish | commelináceas |
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