carrot family

1. 1.

   plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill

   SynonymsUmbelliferaefamily UmbelliferaeApiaceaefamily Apiaceae

   Broaderrosid dicot family

   Narrowergenus AngelicaPastinaca

   Part ofUmbellales

Questions about carrot family

What does carrot family mean?

carrot family means "plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill".

What is another word for carrot family?

Close synonyms include Umbelliferae, family Umbelliferae, Apiaceae, family Apiaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carrot family a common word?

carrot family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.