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FAMILY EMPETRACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Empetraceae mean?
• FAMILY EMPETRACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY EMPETRACEAE has 1 sense:
1. heathlike shrubs
Familiarity information: FAMILY EMPETRACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heathlike shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
crowberry family; Empetraceae; family Empetraceae
Hypernyms ("family Empetraceae" 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 Empetraceae"):
Empetrum; genus Empetrum (crowberries)
Holonyms ("family Empetraceae" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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