CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does custard-apple family mean? 

• CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical trees or shrubs

  Familiarity information: CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical trees or shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae

Hypernyms ("custard-apple family" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "custard-apple family"):

Annona; genus Annona (type genus of the Annonaceae; tropical American trees or shrubs)

Asimina; genus Asimina (pawpaw)

Cananga; Canangium; genus Cananga; genus Canangium (a genus of Malayan tree)

genus Oxandra; Oxandra (genus of tropical trees)

genus Xylopia; Xylopia (tropical evergreen trees or shrubs; chiefly African)

Holonyms ("custard-apple family" is a member of...):

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)