BUCKTHORN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buckthorn family mean? 

• BUCKTHORN FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BUCKTHORN FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value

  Familiarity information: BUCKTHORN FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKTHORN FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae

Hypernyms ("buckthorn 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 "buckthorn family"):

genus Rhamnus; Rhamnus (type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns)

Colubrina; genus Colubrina (mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits)

genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)

genus Paliurus; Paliurus (thorny Eurasian shrubs)

genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris (a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees)

Holonyms ("buckthorn family" is a member of...):

order Rhamnales; Rhamnales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)