wintergreen family

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   evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia

   SynonymsPyrolaceaefamily Pyrolaceae

   Broaderdilleniid dicot family

   Part ofEricales

Questions about wintergreen family

What does wintergreen family mean?

wintergreen family means "evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia".

What is another word for wintergreen family?

Close synonyms include Pyrolaceae, family Pyrolaceae. 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 wintergreen family a common word?

wintergreen 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.