FAMILY THEOPHRASTACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Theophrastaceae mean? 

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

1. family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY THEOPHRASTACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Theophrastaceae; Theophrastaceae

Hypernyms ("family Theophrastaceae" 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 Theophrastaceae"):

genus Jacquinia; Jacquinia (sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae)

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

order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)