noun
a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales
• Syn: ↑Haloragidaceae, ↑Haloragaceae, ↑family Haloragaceae, ↑water-milfoil family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑order Myrtales, ↑Thymelaeales, ↑order Thymelaeales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Myriophyllum, ↑genus Myriophyllum
Useful english dictionary. 2012.