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FAMILY VIOLACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Violaceae mean?
• FAMILY VIOLACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY VIOLACEAE has 1 sense:
1. a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus
Familiarity information: FAMILY VIOLACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family
Hypernyms ("family Violaceae" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "family Violaceae"):
genus Viola; Viola (large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions)
genus Hybanthus; Hybanthus (a genus of herbs and small shrubs with white or purple flowers; grows in tropical or subtropical regions)
genus Hymenanthera; Hymenanthera (a genus of slender evergreen shrubs; grow in Australia and New Zealand)
genus Melicytus; Melicytus (a genus of deciduous shrubs or trees; fruit is a berry; grow in New Zealand and Fiji and Solomon Islands)
Holonyms ("family Violaceae" is a member of...):
Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)
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