LAUREL FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laurel family mean? 

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

1. a family of Lauraceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUREL FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Lauraceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family

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

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "laurel family"):

laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

genus Laurus; Laurus (small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves)

Cinnamomum; genus Cinnamomum (Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs)

genus Lindera; Lindera (aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America)

Benzoin; genus Benzoin (used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera)

genus Persea; Persea (avocado)

genus Sassafras (a genus of sassafras)

genus Umbellularia; Umbellularia (aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast)

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

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)