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ALLIONIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Allioniaceae mean? 

ALLIONIACEAE (noun)
  The noun ALLIONIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllalesplay

  Familiarity information: ALLIONIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALLIONIACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae

Hypernyms ("Allioniaceae" is a kind of...):

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Meronyms (members of "Allioniaceae"):

genus Nyctaginia; Nyctaginia (a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species)

Abronia; genus Abronia (genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers)

Allionia; genus Allionia (small genus of chiefly American herbs)

Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillaea; genus Bougainvillea (ornamental tropical woody vines)

genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis (four o'clocks)

genus Pisonia; Pisonia (genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America)

Holonyms ("Allioniaceae" is a member of...):

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)


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