ELM FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elm family mean? 

• ELM FAMILY (noun)
  The noun ELM FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELM FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

elm family; family Ulmaceae; Ulmaceae

Hypernyms ("elm 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 "elm family"):

genus Ulmus; Ulmus (type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions)

Celtis; genus Celtis (large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit)

genus Planera; Planera (a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States)

genus Trema; Trema (an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia)

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

order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)