noun
large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales
• Syn: ↑Gesneriaceae, ↑gesneria family
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Polemoniales, ↑order Polemoniales
• Member Meronyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.