plant family

1. 1.

   a family of plants

   Broaderfamily

   Narrowergymnosperm familyCampanulaceaeDioscoreaceaeErythroxylaceaeCrassulaceaeGrossulariaceaeBoraginaceaeLentibulariaceaeMartyniaceaePedaliaceae

   Part ofPlantae

Questions about plant family

What does plant family mean?

plant family means "a family of plants".

Is plant family a common word?

plant 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.