LINDEN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linden family mean? 

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

1. chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia

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 Dictionary entry details 

• LINDEN FAMILY (noun)

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Meaning:

Chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae

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

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "linden family"):

genus Tilia; Tilia (deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-grey bark of North America and Europe and Asia: lime trees; lindens; basswood)

Entelea; genus Entelea (a genus of evergreen shrub that grows in New Zealand)

Corchorus; genus Corchorus (widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia)

genus Grewia; Grewia (a genus of tropical and subtropical Old World climbers or shrubs or trees)

genus Sparmannia; Sparmannia (small genus of tropical African shrubs)

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

Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)