family papilionacea

1. 1.

   leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae

   SynonymsPapilionaceae

   Broaderrosid dicot family

   Part ofLeguminosae

Questions about family papilionacea

What does family papilionacea mean?

family papilionacea means "leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae".

What is another word for family papilionacea?

Close synonyms include Papilionaceae. 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 papilionacea a common word?

family papilionacea 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.