noun
family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia
• Syn: ↑family Loasaceae, ↑loasa family
• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales
• Member Meronyms: ↑genus Loasa, ↑Mentzelia, ↑genus Mentzelia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.