family portulacaceae

1. 1.

   family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas

   SynonymsPortulacaceaepurslane family

   Broadercaryophylloid dicot family

   Part ofCaryophyllales

Questions about family portulacaceae

What does family portulacaceae mean?

family portulacaceae means "family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas".

What is another word for family portulacaceae?

Close synonyms include Portulacaceae, purslane 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 portulacaceae a common word?

family portulacaceae 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.