SALICACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salicaceae mean? 

• SALICACEAE (noun)
  The noun SALICACEAE has 1 sense:

1. two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus

  Familiarity information: SALICACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALICACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family

Hypernyms ("Salicaceae" is a kind of...):

hamamelid dicot family (family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Salicaceae"):

genus Salix; Salix (a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows)

genus Populus; Populus (a genus of trees of the family Salicaceae that is found in the northern hemisphere; poplars)

Holonyms ("Salicaceae" is a member of...):

order Salicales; Salicales (coextensive with the family Salicaceae)