water-lily family

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   dicot aquatic plants

   SynonymsNymphaeaceaefamily Nymphaeaceae

   Broadermagnoliid dicot family

   Part ofRanales

Questions about water-lily family

What does water-lily family mean?

water-lily family means "dicot aquatic plants".

What is another word for water-lily family?

Close synonyms include Nymphaeaceae, family Nymphaeaceae. 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 water-lily family a common word?

water-lily 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.