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FAMILY EBENACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Ebenaceae mean?
• FAMILY EBENACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY EBENACEAE has 1 sense:
1. fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon
Familiarity information: FAMILY EBENACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ebenaceae; ebony family; family Ebenaceae
Hypernyms ("family Ebenaceae" 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 Ebenaceae"):
Diospyros; genus Diospyros (a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood)
Holonyms ("family Ebenaceae" is a member of...):
Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)
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