CUCURBITACEAE Antonyms

• a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives

• heathers

• a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae

• large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales

• a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary

• enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers

• the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane

• a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens

• large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra