meadow-beauty family
- noun
- Specialized
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familia de las melastomatáceas
- The meadow-beauty family includes many attractive shrubs and herbs grown in gardens.
Examples
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Many gardeners appreciate the meadow-beauty family for its vibrant colors.
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Some species in the meadow-beauty family have striking purple or pink flowers.
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Botanists often study the meadow-beauty family for its diverse floral structures.
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The meadow-beauty family includes many beautiful flowering plants.
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Botanists often study the meadow-beauty family for its diverse floral structures.
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Some species in the meadow-beauty family have striking purple or pink flowers.
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The meadow-beauty family includes many attractive shrubs and herbs grown in gardens.
Synonyms
A group of tropical plants like trees, shrubs, and herbs often grown for bright flowers
A group of flowering plants from tropical and warm places, often trees or shrubs, grown for their pretty flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
meadow-beauty + family
The phrase is compositionally built from a plant name 'meadow-beauty' and 'family' meaning a taxonomic grouping, so it denotes the family of plants called meadow-beauty. This is a common, cross-linguistic noun + family pattern (e.g., 'rose family', 'mint family'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Meadow-beauty family comes from the simple image of plants that make a meadow look like a place of beauty, so the name joins those words to picture pretty meadow flowers. So it now means 'a family' of 'flowering plants' often grown for their attractive blooms.
