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CAPPARIDACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Capparidaceae mean?
• CAPPARIDACEAE (noun)
The noun CAPPARIDACEAE has 1 sense:
1. a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia
Familiarity information: CAPPARIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("Capparidaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Capparidaceae"):
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 ("Capparidaceae" is a member of...):
order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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