SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spindle-tree family mean? 

• SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits

  Familiarity information: SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Celastraceae; family Celastraceae; spindle-tree family; staff-tree family

Hypernyms ("spindle-tree 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 "spindle-tree family"):

Catha; genus Catha (a genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers)

Celastrus; genus Celastrus (genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet)

Euonymus; genus Euonymus (widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines)

Holonyms ("spindle-tree family" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)