CAPER FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caper family mean? 

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

1. a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPER FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

caper family; Capparidaceae; family Capparidaceae

Hypernyms ("caper family" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "caper family"):

Capparis; genus Capparis (tropical or subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees)

Cleome; genus Cleome (tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs)

Crateva; genus Crateva (tropical genus of small trees or shrubs)

genus Polanisia; Polanisia (widely distributed herbs having palmate leaves and creamy white to or pink to magenta flowers with many stamens of unequal length)

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

order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)