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DILLENIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Dilleniaceae mean?
• DILLENIACEAE (noun)
The noun DILLENIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia
Familiarity information: DILLENIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Dilleniaceae; family Dilleniaceae
Hypernyms ("Dilleniaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Dilleniaceae"):
genus Dillenia (East Indian and Australian shrubs and trees having panicles of large white or yellow flowers)
genus Hibbertia; Hibbertia (evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia)
Holonyms ("Dilleniaceae" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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