noun
widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
• Syn: ↑Acanthaceae, ↑acanthus family
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Polemoniales, ↑order Polemoniales
• Member Meronyms: ↑genus Acanthus, ↑Graptophyllum, ↑genus Graptophyllum, ↑Thunbergia, ↑genus Thunbergia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.