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Noun four-o'clock family has 1 sense

Nyctaginaceae, family Nyctaginaceae, Allioniaceae, family Allioniaceae, four-o'clock family - a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
--₁ is a kind of caryophylloid dicot family
--₁ is a member of
Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales
--₁ has members:
Nyctaginia, genus Nyctaginia; Abronia, genus Abronia; Allionia, genus Allionia; genus Bougainvillea, Bougainvillaea, genus Bougainvillaea; Mirabilis, genus Mirabilis; Pisonia, genus Pisonia