EPHEDRACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ephedraceae mean? 

• EPHEDRACEAE (noun)
  The noun EPHEDRACEAE has 1 sense:

1. ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae

  Familiarity information: EPHEDRACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPHEDRACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ephedraceae; family Ephedraceae

Hypernyms ("Ephedraceae" is a kind of...):

gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Ephedraceae"):

genus Ephedra (type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions)

Holonyms ("Ephedraceae" is a member of...):

Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)