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MYRICACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Myricaceae mean?
• MYRICACEAE (noun)
The noun MYRICACEAE has 1 sense:
1. constituting the order Myricales
Familiarity information: MYRICACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Constituting the order Myricales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family
Hypernyms ("Myricaceae" 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 "Myricaceae"):
genus Myrica; Myrica (deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees)
Comptonia; genus Comptonia (one species: sweet fern)
Holonyms ("Myricaceae" is a member of...):
Myricales; order Myricales (coextensive with the family Myricaceae)
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