STERCULIA FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sterculia family mean? 

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

1. a large family of plants of order Malvales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STERCULIA FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large family of plants of order Malvales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "sterculia family"):

genus Sterculia (type genus of the Sterculiaceae: deciduous or evergreen trees of Old and New World tropics and subtropics)

Brachychiton; genus Brachychiton (Australian trees (usually with swollen trunks))

Cola; genus Cola (large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts)

genus Dombeya (genus of African shrubs or small trees)

Firmiana; genus Firmiana (small genus of Asian trees or shrubs)

Fremontia; Fremontodendron; genus Fremontia; genus Fremontodendron (flannelbush)

genus Helicteres; Helicteres (genus of shrubs and small trees of tropical America and Asia having cylindrical fruits spirally twisted around one another)

genus Heritiera; genus Terrietia; Heritiera; Terrietia (small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses)

genus Hermannia; Hermannia (genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers)

genus Pterospermum; Pterospermum (genus of tropical Asian trees and shrubs)

genus Tarrietia; Tarrietia (small genus of east Asian and Australian timber trees)

genus Theobroma; Theobroma (cacao plants)

genus Triplochiton; Triplochiton (small genus of tropical African trees with maplelike leaves)

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

Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)