borage family

1. A widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit (synset 112836685)
   is a type of: plant family - a family of plants
   member holonym:

   • borago, genus borago - perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region
   • amsinckia, genus amsinckia - rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks
   • genus anchusa - rough and hairy Old World herbs
   • cordia, genus cordia - tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
   • cynoglossum, genus cynoglossum - a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae
   • echium, genus echium - a genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
   • genus hackelia, genus lappula, hackelia, lappula - stickweed; beggar's lice
   • genus lithospermum, lithospermum - annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia
   • genus mertensia, mertensia - a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels
   • genus myosotis, myosotis - forget-me-nots; scorpion grass
   • genus onosmodium, onosmodium - a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae
   • genus symphytum, symphytum - comfrey
   belongs to: order polemoniales, polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales
   same as: boraginaceae, family boraginaceae

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