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PLANE-TREE FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plane-tree family mean?
• PLANE-TREE FAMILY (noun)
The noun PLANE-TREE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees
Familiarity information: PLANE-TREE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Platanaceae; plane-tree family; Platanaceae
Hypernyms ("plane-tree family" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "plane-tree family"):
genus Platanus; Platanus (genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore)
Holonyms ("plane-tree family" is a member of...):
order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)
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