Hydrophyllaceae
plural noun
Hy·dro·phyl·la·ce·ae
: a family of chiefly North American herbs or undershrubs (order Polemoniales) having a cymose often helicoid inflorescence and usually numerous ovules in each cell of a capsular fruit see hydrophyllum , phacelia
hydrophyllaceous adjective
¦⸗⸗⸗¦lāshəs
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Hydrophyllum, type genus + -aceae