noun
a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers
• Syn: ↑Polemoniaceae, ↑family Polemoniaceae
• Derivationally related forms: ↑polemoniaceous (for: ↑Polemoniaceae)
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Polemoniales, ↑order Polemoniales
• Member Meronyms: ↑genus Polemonium, ↑genus Phlox, ↑Linanthus, ↑genus Linanthus
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the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.