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EMPETRACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Empetraceae mean?
• EMPETRACEAE (noun)
The noun EMPETRACEAE has 1 sense:
1. heathlike shrubs
Familiarity information: EMPETRACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heathlike shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
crowberry family; Empetraceae; family Empetraceae
Hypernyms ("Empetraceae" 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 "Empetraceae"):
Empetrum; genus Empetrum (crowberries)
Holonyms ("Empetraceae" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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