CECROPIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cecropiaceae mean? 

• CECROPIACEAE (noun)
  The noun CECROPIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. in some classifications included in family Moraceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CECROPIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classifications included in family Moraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cecropiaceae; family Cecropiaceae

Hypernyms ("Cecropiaceae" 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 "Cecropiaceae"):

Cecropia; genus Cecropia (large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc)

Holonyms ("Cecropiaceae" is a member of...):

order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)