noun
herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers
• Syn: ↑family Lythraceae, ↑loosestrife family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑order Myrtales, ↑Thymelaeales, ↑order Thymelaeales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Lythrum, ↑genus Lythrum, ↑Lagerstroemia, ↑genus Lagerstroemia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.