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FAMILY GUTTIFERAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Guttiferae mean?
• FAMILY GUTTIFERAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY GUTTIFERAE has 1 sense:
1. widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
Familiarity information: FAMILY GUTTIFERAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family
Hypernyms ("family Guttiferae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family Guttiferae"):
Calophyllum; genus Calophyllum (genus of tropical evergreen trees)
genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)
Garcinia; genus Garcinia (evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens)
genus Hypericum; Hypericum (large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions)
genus Mammea; Mammea (American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit)
genus Mesua; Mesua (genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers)
Holonyms ("family Guttiferae" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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