PINE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pine family mean? 

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

1. a family of Pinaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PINE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Pinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Pinaceae; Pinaceae; pine family

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

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "pine family"):

genus Pinus; Pinus (type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines)

genus Larix; Larix (larches)

genus Pseudolarix; Pseudolarix (one species: golden larch)

Abies; genus Abies (true firs)

Cedrus; genus Cedrus (true cedars)

genus Picea; Picea (a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce))

genus Tsuga; Tsuga (hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce)

genus Pseudotsuga; Pseudotsuga (douglas fir; closely related to genera Larix and Cathaya)

genus Cathaya (one species; related to Pseudotsuga and Larix)

genus Keteleeria (a genus of keteleeria)

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

Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)

 Context examples 

This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring was uniform and sad.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)