IVY FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ivy family mean? 

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

1. mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IVY FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family

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

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "ivy family"):

genus Aralia (type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club)

genus Hedera; Hedera (Old World woody vines)

genus Meryta; Meryta (small to medium evergreen dioecious trees of oceanic climates: puka)

genus Panax; Panax (perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng)

genus Schefflera; Schefflera (large genus of shrubby and climbing tropical plants having showy digitately compound foliage)

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

order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))