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FAMILY BOMBACACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Bombacaceae mean?
• FAMILY BOMBACACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY BOMBACACEAE has 1 sense:
1. tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
Familiarity information: FAMILY BOMBACACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae
Hypernyms ("family Bombacaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family Bombacaceae"):
Bombax; genus Bombax (trees of chiefly South America)
Adansonia; genus Adansonia (baobab; cream-of-tartar tree)
Ceiba; genus Ceiba (tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers)
Durio; genus Durio (a genus of tall Asian trees of the family Bombacaceae)
genus Montezuma (one species: medium-sized evergreen tree of Puerto Rico or Mexico)
genus Ochroma; Ochroma (one species: balsa)
genus Pseudobombax; Pseudobombax (tropical American deciduous shrubs or small trees)
Holonyms ("family Bombacaceae" is a member of...):
Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)
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