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ARAUCARIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Araucariaceae mean?
• ARAUCARIACEAE (noun)
The noun ARAUCARIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae
Familiarity information: ARAUCARIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall evergreen cone-bearing trees of South America and Australia with broad leathery leaves; in some classifications included in the Pinaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
araucaria family; Araucariaceae; family Araucariaceae
Hypernyms ("Araucariaceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Araucariaceae"):
Wollemi pine (newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned)
genus Araucaria (a genus of the araucaria family)
Agathis; genus Agathis (kauri pine)
Holonyms ("Araucariaceae" is a member of...):
Coniferales; order Coniferales (profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves)
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