SWEETLEAF FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweetleaf family mean? 

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

1. a dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEETLEAF FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Symplocaceae; sweetleaf family; Symplocaceae

Hypernyms ("sweetleaf family" 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 "sweetleaf family"):

genus Symplocus; Symplocus (type and sole genus of Symplocaceae including sweetleaf)

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

Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)