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FAMILY CASUARINACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Casuarinaceae mean?
• FAMILY CASUARINACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY CASUARINACEAE has 1 sense:
1. one genus: genus Casuarina
Familiarity information: FAMILY CASUARINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One genus: genus Casuarina
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Casuarinaceae; family Casuarinaceae
Hypernyms ("family Casuarinaceae" 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 "family Casuarinaceae"):
genus Casuarina (genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies; coextensive with the family Casuarinaceae and order Casuarinales)
Holonyms ("family Casuarinaceae" is a member of...):
Casuarinales; order Casuarinales (order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas; 1 family: Casuarinaceae)
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