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BEAN-CAPER FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bean-caper family mean? 

BEAN-CAPER FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BEAN-CAPER FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larreaplay

  Familiarity information: BEAN-CAPER FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


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BEAN-CAPER FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae

Hypernyms ("bean-caper family" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "bean-caper family"):

genus Zygophyllum; Zygophyllum (usually tropical herbs or shrubs having ill-smelling foliage and flower buds that are used as capers: bean capers)

Bulnesia; genus Bulnesia (palo santo)

genus Guaiacum; Guaiacum (small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America)

genus Larrea; Larrea (xerophytic evergreen shrubs; South America to southwestern United States)

genus Tribulus; Tribulus (annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs of warm regions)

Holonyms ("bean-caper family" is a member of...):

Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)


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