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FAMILY OCHNACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ochnaceae mean?
• FAMILY OCHNACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY OCHNACEAE has 1 sense:
1. family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves
Familiarity information: FAMILY OCHNACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Ochnaceae; ochna family; Ochnaceae
Hypernyms ("family Ochnaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family Ochnaceae"):
genus Ochna; Ochna (type genus of Ochnaceae; evergreen trees and shrubs of Old World tropics)
Holonyms ("family Ochnaceae" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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