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Noun: family Fabaceae
  1. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
    - Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, legume family, pea family

Type of: rosid dicot family

Part of: order Rosales, Rosales

Nearest

family Erinaceidae
family Eriocaulaceae
family Erysiphaceae
family Erythroxylaceae
family Eschrichtiidae
family Esocidae
family Euglenaceae
family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae
family Fagaceae
family Falconidae
family Fasciolidae
family Felidae
family Filariidae
family film
family Fissurellidae
family Fistulariidae
family Fistulinaceae
family Flacourtiaceae