SALVADORA FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salvadora family mean? 

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

1. a family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALVADORA FAMILY (noun)

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Meaning:

A family of Old World shrubs and trees of order Gentianales; related to Oleaceae but having four stamens and four petals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Salvadoraceae; Salvadora family; Salvadoraceae

Hypernyms ("Salvadora 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 "Salvadora family"):

genus Salvadora; Salvadora (genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China)

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

Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)