family boraginaceae

1. 1.

   a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit

   SynonymsBoraginaceaeborage family

   Broaderplant family

   Part ofPolemoniales

Questions about family boraginaceae

What does family boraginaceae mean?

family boraginaceae means "a widely distributed family of plants distinguished by circinate flowers and nutlike fruit".

What is another word for family boraginaceae?

Close synonyms include Boraginaceae, borage family. 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 family boraginaceae a common word?

family boraginaceae 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.