FAMILY LECYTHIDACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Lecythidaceae mean? 

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

1. large tropical trees bearing large fruits with woody skins

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY LECYTHIDACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large tropical trees bearing large fruits with woody skins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Lecythidaceae; Lecythidaceae

Hypernyms ("family Lecythidaceae" 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 Lecythidaceae"):

genus Grias; Grias (anchovy pear tree)

Bertholletia; genus Bertholletia (brazil nut)

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

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)