evening-primrose family

1. 1.

   a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales

   SynonymsOnagraceaefamily Onagraceae

   Broaderrosid dicot family

   Part ofMyrtales

Questions about evening-primrose family

What does evening-primrose family mean?

evening-primrose family means "a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales".

What is another word for evening-primrose family?

Close synonyms include Onagraceae, family Onagraceae. 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 evening-primrose family a common word?

evening-primrose 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.