LEPIDOBOTRYACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lepidobotryaceae mean? 

• LEPIDOBOTRYACEAE (noun)
  The noun LEPIDOBOTRYACEAE has 1 sense:

1. family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa

  Familiarity information: LEPIDOBOTRYACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEPIDOBOTRYACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Lepidobotryaceae; Lepidobotryaceae

Hypernyms ("Lepidobotryaceae" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Lepidobotryaceae"):

genus Lepidobotrys (a genus of dicotyledonous trees belonging to the family Lepidobotryaceae)

genus Ruptiliocarpon; Ruptiliocarpon (new (1993) genus of trees of Central America now recognized as similar to those of genus Lepidobotrys)

Holonyms ("Lepidobotryaceae" is a member of...):

Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)