ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷+fə̇ˈlāsēˌē noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Hydrophyllum, type genus + -aceae
: a family of chiefly No. American herbs or undershrubs (order Polemoniales) having a cymose often helicoid inflorescence and usually numerous ovules in each cell of a capsular fruit — see hydrophyllum , phacelia
• hy·dro·phyl·la·ceous | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|lāshəs adjective