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WELWITSCHIACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Welwitschiaceae mean?
• WELWITSCHIACEAE (noun)
The noun WELWITSCHIACEAE has 1 sense:
1. in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
Familiarity information: WELWITSCHIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Welwitschiaceae; Welwitschiaceae
Hypernyms ("Welwitschiaceae" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm family (a family of gymnosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Welwitschiaceae"):
genus Welwitchia; genus Welwitschia (type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae)
Holonyms ("Welwitschiaceae" is a member of...):
Gnetales; order Gnetales (chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms)
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