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fabaceae
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fabaceae has 1 sense
- fabaceae(n = noun.plant) family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae; Array is a kind of rosid dicot family
is a member of order rosales, rosales
CIDE DICTIONARY
fabaceae, n.
a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniacea ; Mimosaceae ; Papilionaceae . [WordNet 1.5]
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