Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun palm_family

1 sense of palm family

Sense 1
Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family -- (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)
       => monocot family, liliopsid family -- (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)