BURSERACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Burseraceae mean? 

• BURSERACEAE (noun)
  The noun BURSERACEAE has 1 sense:

1. resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURSERACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Burseraceae; family Burseraceae; torchwood family

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Burseraceae"):

incense tree (any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense)

Bursera; genus Bursera (type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi)

Boswellia; genus Boswellia (genus of trees of North Africa and India that yield incense)

Commiphora; genus Commiphora (genus of East Indian and African trees yielding balsamic products)

genus Protium; Protium (genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi)

Holonyms ("Burseraceae" 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)

 Context examples 

B. serrata is a tree from the Burseraceae family commonly found in India, northern Africa and the Middle East.

(Boswellia serrata, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized extract derived from the plant Boswellia serrata of the family Burseraceae with anti-inflammatory activity.

(Boswellia serrata Extract, NCI Thesaurus)