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FAMILY SANTALACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Santalaceae mean? 

FAMILY SANTALACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY SANTALACEAE has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruitplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FAMILY SANTALACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae

Hypernyms ("family Santalaceae" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "family Santalaceae"):

genus Santalum; Santalum (parasitic trees of Indonesia and Malaysia)

genus Buckleya (small genus of Asiatic and American parasitic shrubs)

Comandra; genus Comandra (small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants)

Eucarya; Fusanus; genus Eucarya; genus Fusanus (quandong trees)

genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)

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

order Santalales; Santalales (order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots)


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