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FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Fouquieriaceae mean?
• FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States
Familiarity information: FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FAMILY FOUQUIERIACEAE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Fouquieriaceae; Fouquieriaceae
Hypernyms ("family Fouquieriaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family Fouquieriaceae"):
Fouquieria; genus Fouquieria (resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year)
Holonyms ("family Fouquieriaceae" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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