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MORACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moraceae mean? 

MORACEAE (noun)
  The noun MORACEAE has 1 sense:

1. trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabisplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MORACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Moraceae; Moraceae; mulberry family

Hypernyms ("Moraceae" 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 "Moraceae"):

genus Morus; Morus (type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries)

genus Maclura; Maclura (yellowwood trees or shrubs)

Artocarpus; genus Artocarpus (evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit)

Ficus; genus Ficus (large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees)

Broussonetia; genus Broussonetia (paper mulberry)

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

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

Derivation:

moraceous (of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae)


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