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CHLORANTHACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Chloranthaceae mean?
• CHLORANTHACEAE (noun)
The noun CHLORANTHACEAE has 1 sense:
1. small family of tropical herbs and shrubs and trees
Familiarity information: CHLORANTHACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small family of tropical herbs and shrubs and trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chloranthaceae; family Chloranthaceae
Hypernyms ("Chloranthaceae" 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 "Chloranthaceae"):
Chloranthus; genus Chloranthus (type genus of the Chloranthaceae)
Holonyms ("Chloranthaceae" is a member of...):
order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)
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