fumitory family

1. 1.

   erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn

   SynonymsFumariaceaefamily Fumariaceae

   Broaderdilleniid dicot family

   Part ofRhoeadales

Questions about fumitory family

What does fumitory family mean?

fumitory family means "erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn".

What is another word for fumitory family?

Close synonyms include Fumariaceae, family Fumariaceae. 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 fumitory family a common word?

fumitory 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.