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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 Africaplay

  Familiarity information: DAPHNE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DAPHNE FAMILY (noun)


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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