FAMILY ANNONACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Annonaceae mean? 

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

1. chiefly tropical trees or shrubs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ANNONACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae

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

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "family Annonaceae"):

Annona; genus Annona (type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs)

Asimina; genus Asimina (pawpaw)

Cananga; Canangium; genus Cananga; genus Canangium (a genus of Malayan tree)

genus Oxandra; Oxandra (genus of tropical trees)

genus Xylopia; Xylopia (tropical evergreen trees or shrubs; chiefly African)

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

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)