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HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honeysuckle family mean? 

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

1. shrubs and small trees and woody vinesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubs and small trees and woody vines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family

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

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "honeysuckle family"):

genus Abelia (chiefly east Asian shrubs)

Diervilla; genus Diervilla (small genus of low deciduous shrubs: bush honeysuckles)

genus Leycesteria; Leycesteria (small species of shrubs of western Himalayas to China)

genus Linnaea; Linnaea (one species: twinflower)

genus Lonicera; Lonicera (woodbine)

genus Symphoricarpos; Symphoricarpos (deciduous shrubs of North America and Central America and China)

common snowberry; snowberry; Symphoricarpos alba; waxberry (deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries)

genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)

genus Triostium; Triostium (genus of Asiatic and North American herbs: feverroot)

genus Viburnum; Viburnum (deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree)

genus Weigela (east Asian flowering shrubs)

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

order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)


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