Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun water-shield_family

1 sense of water-shield family

Sense 1
Cabombaceae, subfamily Cabombaceae, water-shield family -- (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)
       => magnoliid dicot family -- (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)