FAMILY STRELITZIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Strelitziaceae mean? 

• FAMILY STRELITZIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY STRELITZIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY STRELITZIACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Strelitziaceae; strelitzia family; Strelitziaceae

Hypernyms ("family Strelitziaceae" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "family Strelitziaceae"):

genus Strelitzia; Strelitzia (small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)

genus Ravenala (woody tropical plants with tall trunks; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)

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

Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)