| Noun | 1. | Loasaceae - family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs genus Loasa - genus of tropical American prickly herbs or subshrubs genus Mentzelia, Mentzelia - genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae |