"family nyctaginaceae" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: caryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
member holonym:
- genus nyctaginia, nyctaginia - a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species
- abronia, genus abronia - genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers
- allionia, genus allionia - small genus of chiefly American herbs
- bougainvillaea, genus bougainvillaea, genus bougainvillea - ornamental tropical woody vines
- genus mirabilis, mirabilis - four o'clocks
- genus pisonia, pisonia - genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America
belongs to: caryophyllales, chenopodiales, order caryophyllales, order-chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae

same as: allioniaceae, family allioniaceae, four-o'clock family, nyctaginaceae