DOGWOOD FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dogwood family mean? 

• DOGWOOD FAMILY (noun)
  The noun DOGWOOD FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOGWOOD FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae

Hypernyms ("dogwood family" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "dogwood family"):

Aucuba; genus Aucuba (hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan)

Cornus; genus Cornus (a rosid dicot genus of the family Cornaceae including: dogwood; cornel: perennial chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of temperate regions of northern hemisphere)

Corokia; genus Corokia (evergreen shrubs with intricately twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers; grows in New Zealand)

Curtisia; genus Curtisia (a large evergreen tree of South Africa)

genus Griselinia; Griselinia (evergreen shrubs of New Zealand and South America)

genus Helwingia; Helwingia (deciduous dioecious shrubs native to woodland thickets in low mountains in Japan)

Holonyms ("dogwood family" is a member of...):

order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))