family Menispermaceae

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family Menispermaceae - herbaceous or woody climbers Menispermaceae, moonseed familymagnoliid dicot family - family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiospermsorder Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceaegenus Menispermum, Menispermum - climbing herbsmoonseed - plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seedsCocculus, genus Cocculus - climbing plants or shrubs