morning-glory family

6.8

A group of climbing flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers like sweet potato and bindweed

noun
/ˈmɔrnɪŋˈɡlɔri ˈfæmɪli/

Specialized

: familia de las ipomeas

Many plants in the morning-glory family are known for their beautiful, trumpet-shaped blooms.

Examples

The morning-glory family includes both ornamental flowers and important food crops like the sweet potato.
Some species in the morning-glory family can be invasive, rapidly spreading along fences and hedges.
The morning-glory family includes many beautiful plants.
I love the flowers from the morning-glory family.
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batata) is a member of the morning-glory family, Convolvulaceae.
Many species in the morning-glory family are popular as ornamental plants in garden landscapes.
Gardeners often choose bindweed from the morning-glory family for its fast-growing, twining vines.

Synonyms

Convolvulaceae

vsmorning-glory family

Specialized

9.9

A family of flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers that climb, like morning glories and sweet potatoes

is the common name for the same plant family

Surface Forms

morning-glory family singular

morning-glory families plural

Morphology

morning-glory + family

The compound follows a transparent taxonomic pattern: 'family' clearly signals a group of related plants, so the structure 'X family' is compositional. However, understanding that 'morning-glory' refers to a specific flowering plant is lexical knowledge not fully derivable from the words 'morning' and 'glory' at B1 level, so full interpretation requires prior exposure.

Etymology

Morning-glory family comes from the bright, trumpet-shaped flowers of morning-glory plants, which open in the morning and often climb or wrap around fences. 'Family' here means 'a group of related plants', so the name refers to the whole group of climbing or twining plants like bindweed and sweet potato.