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broomrape family
noun
brown or yellow leafless herbs; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
Syn: ↑Orobanchaceae, ↑family Orobanchaceae
Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
Member Holonyms: ↑Polemoniales, ↑order Polemoniales

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noun
: orobanchaceae

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adj.
the plant family Orobanchaceae, characterized by scaly, leafless herbaceous plants that are parasitic on the roots of other plants and have irregular flowers and many-seeded capsular fruit, and including beechdrops, broomrape, and squawroot.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.