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EBONY FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ebony family mean? 

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

1. fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmonplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EBONY FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae

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

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "ebony family"):

Diospyros; genus Diospyros (a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood)

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

Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)


 Context examples 


A cigarette made by rolling tobacco by hand in a dried leaf from the tendu tree (a member of the ebony family).

(Bidi, NCI Dictionary)



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