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SCREW-PINE FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does screw-pine family mean?
• SCREW-PINE FAMILY (noun)
The noun SCREW-PINE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus
Familiarity information: SCREW-PINE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family
Hypernyms ("screw-pine family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "screw-pine family"):
genus Pandanus (type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines))
Holonyms ("screw-pine family" is a member of...):
order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)
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