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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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.