English > primrose family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere. |
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| Synonyms | Primulaceae, family Primulaceae |
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| Member of | Primulales, order Primulales | Primulaceae |
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| Members | Anagallis, genus Anagallis | chiefly Old World herbs |
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| Centunculus, genus Centunculus | A dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae |
| Glaux, genus Glaux | sea milkwort |
| Hottonia, genus Hottonia | aquatic herbs |
| Lysimachia, genus Lysimachia | loosestrife |
| Samolus, genus Samolus | genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes |
| genus Cyclamen | genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves |
| genus Primula | Very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | primuláceas |
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| Catalan | Primulaceae, primuláceas |
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