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CYRILLA FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyrilla family mean? 

CYRILLA FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CYRILLA FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftoniaplay

  Familiarity information: CYRILLA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


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CYRILLA FAMILY (noun)


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Meaning:

Shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cyrilla family; Cyrilliaceae; family Cyrilliaceae; titi family

Hypernyms ("cyrilla family" is a kind of...):

dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid (flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside)

Meronyms (members of "cyrilla family"):

genus Cyrilla (one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit)

Cliftonia; genus Cliftonia (one species: titi)

Holonyms ("cyrilla family" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)


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