HyperDic: water-lily_family

English > 1 sense of the expression water-lily family:
NOUNplantwater-lily family, Nymphaeaceae, family Nymphaeaceaedicot aquatic plants
English > water-lily family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningdicot aquatic plants.
SynonymsNymphaeaceae, family Nymphaeaceae
Member ofRanales, order Ranales, Ranunculales, order Ranunculalesherbs, shrubs and trees
MembersCabombaceae, subfamily Cabombaceae, water-shield familyIn some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies
Nelumbonaceae, subfamily NelumbonaceaeIn some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies
Nuphar, genus Nupharspatterdocks
Nymphaea, genus NymphaeaThe type genus of the family Nymphaeaceae
water lilyAn aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae
Broadermagnoliid dicot familyfamily of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
Spanishfamilia nenúfares, familia ninfáceas, ninfáceas, ninfeáceas
CatalanNymphaeaceae

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