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ST JOHN'S WORT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does St John's wort family mean? 

ST JOHN'S WORT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun ST JOHN'S WORT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timberplay

  Familiarity information: ST JOHN'S WORT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ST JOHN'S WORT FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family

Hypernyms ("St John's wort family" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "St John's wort family"):

Calophyllum; genus Calophyllum (genus of tropical evergreen trees)

genus Clusia (tropical American aromatic trees or shrubs; often epiphytic; some stranglers)

Garcinia; genus Garcinia (evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens)

genus Hypericum; Hypericum (large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions)

genus Mammea; Mammea (American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit)

genus Mesua; Mesua (genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers)

Holonyms ("St John's wort family" is a member of...):

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)


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