HOLLY FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does holly family mean? 

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

1. widely distributed shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLLY FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aquifoliaceae; family Aquifoliaceae; holly family

Hypernyms ("holly family" 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 "holly family"):

genus Ilex; Ilex (a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies))

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

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)