FAMILY ACERACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Aceraceae mean? 

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

1. a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY ACERACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aceraceae; family Aceraceae; maple family

Hypernyms ("family Aceraceae" 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 "family Aceraceae"):

Acer; genus Acer (type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit)

Dipteronia; genus Dipteronia (small genus of large deciduous shrubs having large clusters of winged seeds that turn red as they mature; central and southern China)

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

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)