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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 fruit
Familiarity information: FAMILY SANTALACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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