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DAPHNE FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does daphne family mean?
• DAPHNE FAMILY (noun)
The noun DAPHNE FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa
Familiarity information: DAPHNE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
daphne family; family Thymelaeaceae; Thymelaeaceae
Hypernyms ("daphne family" 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 "daphne family"):
genus Daphne (usually evergreen Eurasian shrubs)
Dirca; genus Dirca (deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwood)
Holonyms ("daphne family" is a member of...):
Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)
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