CISTACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cistaceae mean? 

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

1. shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CISTACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Cistaceae"):

Cistus; genus Cistus (small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa)

genus Helianthemum (widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia)

genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)

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

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)