MANGROVE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mangrove family mean? 

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

1. trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANGROVE FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees and shrubs that usually form dense jungles along tropical seacoasts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Rhizophoraceae; mangrove family; Rhizophoraceae

Hypernyms ("mangrove family" 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 "mangrove family"):

genus Rhizophora; Rhizophora (type genus of the Rhizophoraceae; a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs)

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

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)