Trapaceae (Noun)
Meaning
Family comprising solely the genus Trapa; in some classifications treated as a subfamily or tribe of the family Onagraceae.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The botanical family Trapaceae, is typically considered to comprise just the water caltrop genus Trapa.
- Trapaceae were formerly known as Hydrocaryaceae or Trapianeae once, referring to this set of water plants.
- Most major sources agree that Trapaceae genus consists of a solitary genus, Trapa.
- Botanists classify Lythraceae and Trapaceae as separate or distinct families based on numerous physiological features.
- However, in alternate botanical taxonomic classification schemes Trapaceae is thought of as being one subset subfamily.