RHAMNACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhamnaceae mean? 

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

1. trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHAMNACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae

Hypernyms ("Rhamnaceae" 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 "Rhamnaceae"):

genus Rhamnus; Rhamnus (type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns)

Colubrina; genus Colubrina (mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits)

genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)

genus Paliurus; Paliurus (thorny Eurasian shrubs)

genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris (a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees)

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

order Rhamnales; Rhamnales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

 Context examples 

Used as a laxative in constipation and various medical conditions, Cascara (cascara sagrada) is dried bark of Picramnia sp. (Simarubaceae) or Rhamnus purshiana (Rhamnaceae) containing stimulant laxative anthranol glycosides that act on the intestinal wall to increase muscle contractions and encourage bowel movements.

(Frangula purshiana Bark, NCI Thesaurus)