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FAMILY EBENACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ebenaceae mean? 

FAMILY EBENACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY EBENACEAE has 1 sense:

1. fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmonplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY EBENACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae

Hypernyms ("family Ebenaceae" 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 Ebenaceae"):

Diospyros; genus Diospyros (a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood)

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

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


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