| Noun | 1. | Dipsacaceae - chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Rubiales, Rubiales - an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary Dipsacus, genus Dipsacus - type genus of the Dipsacaceae: teasel genus Scabiosa - annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; mainly Mediterranean |