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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 Polanisiaplay

  Familiarity information: CAPPARIDACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


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CAPPARIDACEAE (noun)


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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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